Students of the Mining University became the winners of the "CASE-IN" championship

The team of St. Petersburg Mining University "Oilmen and rocking chair" took the second place in the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The final, which was held in Moscow, was attended by more than 250 people, including students and young specialists from fuel and energy companies, as well as representatives of the country's industry ministries and departments.

The main theme of this year's championship was climate projects, their development and implementation in permafrost conditions. During the qualifying stages, the teams had to select an enterprise in the fuel and energy sector, use its example to propose measures to reduce, capture, recycle and store greenhouse gases, as well as develop a roadmap for their implementation.

"Our decision concerned the modernization of the Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company. We suggested using hydrogen as a resource for generating electricity there. We analyzed three methods of its production from natural gas: steam reforming of methane, its thermal pyrolysis and conversion of methane in a low-temperature nonequilibrium plasma. According to the analysis, steam reforming has become the basis of our carbon footprint reduction program. Due to the best technological and economic indicators and environmental safety of this method. The payback period for the project will be no more than 8 years," said Tikhon Glum, captain of Neftyanikov and Rocking Chair, a 4th-year student at the Mining University.

In the final, in addition to presenting their work, the teams also had to complete additional tasks. These include a benchmark analysis of the best available technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an assessment of key profitability indicators for enterprises that minimize their carbon footprint, and a justification for approaches to monitoring the implementation of relevant innovations.

It should be noted that the "Oilmen and Rockers" included Tikhon Glum, Roman Ivanov, Savva Solodukhin and Maxim Yamkin. The Reliable Change Foundation, the non-profit partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and the AstraLogica company acted as organizers of the Autumn Cup of the International CASE-IN Championship.

A source: North-West Outpost