Volgograd students predicted changes in production processes in the context of Industry 4.0

The qualifying stage of the Student League of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship in the field of Petrochemistry was held at Volgograd State Technical University.

The Student League in the field of Petrochemistry (held since 2018) takes place in the format of remote qualifying stages, full-time with the possibility of remote connection of semi-finals and full-time finals among university students who, in teams of 3 to 4 people, solve engineering cases in the field of Petrochemistry, dedicated to real production problems and developed based on materials from industry enterprises.

Two weeks ago, the teams, which included students from the Faculty of Chemistry and Technology at the flagship University, received a case study from the industrial partner of the championship, Sibur. The students were asked to formulate how the production process of enterprises will change in the context of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), determine which technical means and solutions of Industry 4.0 will improve the level of industrial and environmental safety of enterprises, evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the considered technical solutions and describe the industrial enterprise of the future. And on Tuesday, the projects were defended, seven teams presented their vision of the future enterprise.

The participants themselves told about what the teams presented to the experts.

"We have proposed a transition to robotization of production, - says Artem Yakovlev, captain of the Alchemists team (HT-341). – Robots will work at the enterprise, and people will monitor and control them. It's safer and more cost-effective in the long run."

Yuri Kamenev (captain, HT-344) and Pavel Aseev (HT-341) from the Eggplant team proposed the introduction of sensors to monitor the safety of emissions, wear of devices and their parts, and it will be possible to monitor their operation using a neural network.

Yulia Vladimirovna Shulevich, Professor of the Department of Analytical, Physical Chemistry and Physico-Chemistry of Polymers, participated in the CASE-IN championship as an expert for the first time.: "Of course, all the guys did well, they tried their best - they studied the topic, made colorful presentations. Personally, I did not have enough specifics in the decisions of some teams, although there were very interesting suggestions. For example, the Last Battalion team took a technological scheme for the production of butadiene and proposed its modernization, and the guys from the Skrepysh team asked about monitoring the condition of the pipeline for pumping oil, including underwater, using echolocation sensors to control corrosion."

Recognized as the best:

- 1st place – The Last Battalion team: Daniil Kusakovsky, Vladislav Arkhipov, Artyom Tyshchenko (HT-343);

- 2nd place – ChemTech team: Natalia Glukhovskova (CGTM-1.4p), Igor Korsakov (TNGM-1.3p), Irina Makarevich (POAS-1.2), Artem Myasnyankin (CGTM-1.4p).

These teams receive tickets to the semi-finals of the championship.

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