St. Petersburg power engineering students and builders successfully performed at the CASE-IN Championship

NUST MISIS hosted the final of the 10th anniversary International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the Presidential Platform "Russia — the Land of Opportunities".

SPbPU students annually take part in the CASE-IN championship and for the first time became winners in two areas at once — "Electric Power Industry" and "Project Engineering". The anniversary championship was dedicated to solving cases of leading companies in the fuel and energy and nuclear industries, taking into account the requirements of Industry 4.0.

The teams passed a complex competition consisting of a qualifying round, a semi-final and a final, in which teams from 108 universities from 44 cities of Russia, as well as universities from Kazakhstan and Belarus took part.

The Electric Power Engineering teams needed to propose digital technologies for Industry 4.0 and assess the effect of their implementation on technological disruption in The United Energy System of the East (UES of the East) during the accident that occurred on August 1, 2017. It was also necessary to specify the power units of power plants and estimate the required capacity reserves in the ECO of the East, for which the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies should be considered as a matter of priority.

The team of the WattsUp Institute of Energy (IE) won the superfinal in the field of "Electric Power Industry". The team consists of Alexandra Voziyan, a 3rd-year student of the Higher School of Electric Power Systems, Ivan Pavlov, a 3rd-year student of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Energy, Valeria Poltorykhina, a 4th-year student of the Higher School of Engineering and Economics, and Philip Shcherban, a 1st-year graduate student of the Higher School of High Voltage Energy.

"Participating in the CASE-IN gave our team an interesting experience.— noted the captain of the team Alexandra Voziyan. — The case allowed us to expand the knowledge gained in the specialty and immerse ourselves in a real industry task. We have been carefully preparing for the final and we are glad that we were able to find time and enjoy the sights of Moscow. We met with electrical engineering students from Tomsk, Saratov, Irkutsk and other cities. At the end of the presentation, we received feedback from experts from the System Operator, Rosseti and other companies. The experts shared their vision of the solution and talked about the specifics of their work. We are grateful to everyone for this invaluable experience, especially Olga V. Novikova, associate professor, the curator of our team. Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Power Engineering».

The second participant of the final from SPbPU in the field of "Electric Power Industry" — the team of the SOAD Institute of Energy won in the "Breakthrough Solution" nomination. The team consists of 4th-year students of the Higher School of Electric Power Systems Alexander Gerasimov and Alexey Guryev, 4th-year student of the Higher School of High Voltage Energy Konstantin Samusik and 3rd-year student of the Higher School of Engineering and Economics Anastasia Pavlova.

Team captain Alexey Guryev noted that despite the fact that his team did not qualify for the superfinal, they were awarded a prize in the Breakthrough Solution nomination: "We met cool guys from different universities. We received feedback from the jury, which allows us to grow as a professional and look up to the best. Participation in the championship makes you think not about energy, or rather, not only about it. This is a complex relationship between different fields — economics, psychology, public speaking, and so on. We are very glad that we participated and became a part of the CASE IN community!"

In the field of "Project Engineering", the students presented a solution to a case study on the ESG transformation of design and construction activities during the construction of an enterprise for the production of methane-hydrogen mixtures.

The second place in the final in the field of Design Engineering was taken by the team of the PoliEngTeam Civil Engineering Institute led by Marina Gravit, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Industrial, Civil and Road Construction (HSE), consisting of Ekaterina Belova, Vadim Kudryavtsev, Daria Shabunina, 4th year students of HSE, and Daria Shabunina, 1st year student of the Higher School of Applied Physics and Space Sciences. Institute of Technology (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications) Nikita Kudryavtsev. The team also became the winner in the "Breakthrough Solution" and "Best Video Business Card" nominations.

"The CASE-IN Championship is an incredible experience and opportunity, expanding horizons and interacting with leading construction and oil and gas companies Daria Shabunina, the captain of the team, shared her impressions. — Participation in such case championships is an increase in knowledge and experience, the ability to find solutions to non-standard tasks. Throughout all three stages, we have been solving cases from one of the world's largest natural gas processing plants, NIPIGAS. The proposed cases are related to the use of Industry 4.0 technologies, aimed either at reducing construction time or ensuring labor protection. Our team felt interested and involved in this topic, and in the final stage we tried to show ourselves worthily and become a part of the history of the jubilee season of the championship. We thank all the organizers and our university for this opportunity.".

Maria Lyulina, the curator of the SPbPU competition, a senior lecturer at the Higher School of Electric Power Systems (IE), received gratitude from the organizers for SPbPU's long-term contribution to the organization of the championship.

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