Four Tomsk Polytechnic University teams will compete for the final of the "CASE-IN"

The results of the qualifying stages of the Student League of the XI International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", held at the Tomsk Polytechnic University, have been summed up. In all four areas, teams of students from the School of Natural Resources Engineering and the School of Energy Engineering reached the semifinals.

In total, about 40 teams from Tomsk Polytechnic University, OmSTU, TSU and TIU submitted applications for participation in the qualifying stages. They solved cases on "Electric Power Industry", "Thermal Power Engineering", "Oil and Gas business" and "Geological Exploration" developed by ALROSA, PJSC Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company, Gazprom Energoholding LLC, JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System.

"The teams of Tomsk Polytechnic University won in all four areas. In "Geological Exploration" — the "Inglorious Nuggets" team, in "Oil and Gas business" — "Desk processing", in "Thermal Power Engineering" — "Gold Experience", in "Electric Power Industry" — "Cool story". The experts noted the high level of case study and interesting solutions proposed by the polytechnics. In addition, it is pleasant that three of the four teams are finalists of last year, which confirmed the title of the best teams of Tomsk Polytechnic University," says Elena Vorontsova, the organizer of the CASE—IN at TPU.

The main theme of this year's championship was "Technological Leadership". Among the cases proposed by the Tomsk Polytechnic University teams: the search for promising sites for diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes, the justification of cost-effective technologies for producing liquefied petroleum gas from by-products of oil extraction and processing, gas condensate, purification of natural gas and other sources in oil and gas fields in the East Siberian region, solving the problems of developing hydropower resources and developing hydrogenation facilities in Russia, modern methods and equipment for determining defective sections of thermal and mechanical equipment.

According to the results of the qualifying competitions, which are held on the basis of 60 partner universities, the best teams received tickets to the industry semi-finals of the championship. The winners will be determined in the final on May 30 – June 1, 2023.

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