Voronezh youth developed solutions in the field of Petrochemistry at the CASE-IN Championship

The qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held at Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies. The nine teams from VGUIT included students from all faculties. They have teamed up to find innovative solutions to the case study issued by SIBUR in the field of Petrochemistry.

This year, the main task of the teams was to design the enterprise of the future, taking into account the latest achievements of technology and technology.

The ten-day preparation of our own unique solutions dedicated to the development of Russian oil and gas chemical enterprises in the context of Industry 4.0 ended with a team defense of the case before a competent jury. It includes university scientists and leading employees of SIBUR.

Opening the qualifying stage of the championship, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Vitaly Vasilenko noted: "Since 2018, almost 250 VGUIT students have participated in various CASE-IN leagues. In the anniversary year of the championship, we will compete for the title of the best in 4 areas already – traditional Petrochemistry, Project engineering, as well as 2 new areas - Automation and IT and Industrial Safety. We are very happy that we are growing together with the championship. There are already victories in the championship history of VGUIT - in 2020 our team became the best in the field of Petrochemistry, and last year the university became the winner of the Energy of Education competition!"

The teams dealt with issues related to modernization and the creation of innovative solutions in different ways. Someone suggested the widespread use of digital twins and drones, someone drew attention to the development of automation systems for cleaning emissions, someone predicted the imminent arrival of Industry 5.0, in which robots (or rather, even gobots) would create the production of the future.

We evaluated the work in this anniversary season in a new way, using a CASE simulator developed by the organizers.

In a few days, the results will be announced, and the top 2 teams will go to defend the honor of the university in the semifinal competitions.

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