Semi-finalists of the CASE-IN championship have been determined at St. Petersburg Mining University

The qualifying stage of the XI season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held at St. Petersburg Mining University. Its participants solved tasks on the topic of "Technological Leadership" developed by companies such as Alrosa, SO UES, ROSSETI, RUSAL and some others.

In the Electric Power Industry field, the Provecta Energy team consisting of Valeria Vorobyova, Evgeny Zhiltsov, Roman Pozdnyakov and Maria Stepanova was recognized as the winner and the holder of a ticket to the semifinals. The students were asked to work out several options for the development of the domestic hydropower industry with a fairly wide planning horizon - up to 2050. Naturally, they should have been based on the economic feasibility and technological feasibility of the plans.

 "The uniqueness of our solutions lies in their scale, as well as an integrated approach to the measures necessary for their implementation. After all, despite the fact that the championship is an engineering one, economic and managerial aspects also play an important role here. Both of our projects are aimed at increasing the installed capacity of the country's hydroelectric power plants by 2 GW. But if in one case we analyzed the prospects for the construction of a whole complex of medium-capacity hydroelectric power plants, then the second involves the construction of the largest hydroelectric power station," said Valeria Vorobyeva from Provecta Energy.

In the Mining field, the Million Carat team was recognized as the winner and the holder of a ticket to the semifinals. Its representatives - Sergey Barkhatov, Andrey Vasiliev, Egor Rastorguev and Vladimir Titov – proposed an effective solution to the problem of the collapse of the sides of the Yubileyny quarry and a new opening scheme while maintaining the stability of the ledges. As the guys themselves noted, the "combination of practicality and novelty of solutions" helped them get to the semifinals.

The MG Crew team (Ivan Gorlov, Semyon Epikhov, Denis Kirilenko, Vladislav Krylov) won in the Oil and Gas business, and the Steel loving You team (Anastasia Gutyanskaya, Maria Zhiltsova, Ilya Kudrin, Artyom Osipov) was recognized as the best among metallurgists.

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