Chemistry students of Nizhny Novgorod Polytechnic University go to the final of the CASE-IN championship

The team of the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev successfully performed in the semifinals of the main season of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of Petrochemistry and won the right to continue the fight in the finals.

At the semi–final stage, which was held in a remote format, the participants presented case solutions to the members of the expert commission on topical issues of PJSC Kazanorgsintez, a key Russian chemical industry enterprise and one of the largest production facilities of PJSC SIBUR Holding.

The teams competed in the semifinals: Kazan National Research Technological University ("Initiators" – 1st place), Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies ("Thoughts Aloud" – 2nd place), National Research Tomsk State University ("Vaterland" – 3rd place), Ufa State Petroleum Technical University ("PetroHub" – 4th place), Amur State University (Synthesis of Gas – 6th place), Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin ("It smells like kerosene" – 8th place), as well as two teams from the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, the main university and branch of the Dzerzhinsky Polytechnic Institute (Schrodinger Chemists and Mirage" – 5th and 7th place, respectively).

Six of the eight teams qualified for the finals, including the team of the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev "Schrodinger Chemists", captain – Roman Yurievich Germanov, second-year master's student of the M21HTE group of the Institute of Physico-Chemical Technologies and Materials Science (team leader , Candidate of Chemical Sciences Borisova Nadezhda Vladimirovna).

The final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" will be held in person in Moscow May 30 – June 1.

The finalists will have to solve an additional task for the semi-final engineering case, present an urgent production and technological task to the expert commission and answer the experts' questions.

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