The teams of IRNTU Lagrange's Theorem, Technovatika and Diamonds of Siberia won bronze medals at the XI International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. In the final, 156 teams of School, Student leagues, the League of Young Professionals, etc. met.

The project of the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" is organized by the Reliable Change Foundation, the non-profit partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and Astra Logic LLC. The cases of the new season were united by the theme "Technological leadership".

The partners of the championship are annually the leading industrial companies of the country - JSC SO UES, JSC ALROSA, PJSC YATEK, NIPIGAZ, PJSC SIBUR Holding, PJSC T Plus, Gazprom Energoholding, etc.

The Diamonds of Siberia mining team was represented by fourth-year students of IRNTU Vladislav Yerofeyev, Alyona Melekhina, Maxim Batrakov and Nikita Efremov. They master open-pit mining at the Institute of Subsoil Use. The scientific supervisor is Associate Professor of the Department of Mining and Mineral Development Yulia Roslavtseva.

The Polytechnic students were solving a case from the diamond mining company ALROSA on the introduction of advanced mining technologies at the Yubileyny quarry in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). They have developed initiatives to reduce the maintenance time for self-propelled vehicles.

"We have proposed a solution taking into account the climatic features of the area. The complex of measures included strengthening the slopes with the help of thermal piles, installing modern monitoring systems on the sides of the quarry. Our team performed in the final of the "CASE-IN" for the first time. Working on the case allowed us to improve our skills in the future profession and improve our skills in surveying. Next year we are determined only to win", - This is Alyona Melekhina.

The contestants of the Project Engineering direction, including the Tech-Novatik team, came to the defense on May 31. Innovators Alisa Soboleva, Maria Sambulova, Mikhail Timofeev and first-year chemist Semyon Luppov worked on the assignment for JSC NIPIGAZ.

The students presented a solution for automating the production of liquefied natural gas based on domestic equipment and software. They proposed to equip the technological lines of natural gas liquefaction with pressure sensors and chromatographs.

According to Alisa Soboleva, the devices will be managed using an AI-based ERP protocol.:  "This will help reduce the production risk associated with the human factor. Our team has also worked out a way to use domestic digitalization services for the YAMAL LNG facility. We suggested paying attention to artificial intelligence, Big Data and blockchain technologies."

It should be noted that the experts highly appreciated Tech-Novatiks, awarding the victory in the special nomination "Breakthrough solution". The scientific supervisor of the students is the curator of the section "Innovatika" of the Department of Automation and Control of IRNTU Vladimir Konyukhov.

Winner Anniversary season The Lagrange's Theorem "CASE-IN" command was announced in the direction of "Oil and Gas business". Its participants were undergraduates Evgeny Rudykh and Viktor Kovrizhnykh, as well as graduates of IRNTU Mikhail Semykin and Sergey Kobylinsky.

According to Evgeny Rudykh, the team has been participating in the championship since the second year of its bachelor's degree.:  "Sergey and Mikhail are currently studying at other universities, but at the CASE-IN they decided to advocate for the Lagrange Theorem. We solved the case of PJSC Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company: we developed effective technologies for producing liquefied petroleum gases from by-products of oil and gas condensate extraction and processing."

The experienced participants from Lagrange's Theorem plan to compete in the engineering championship as young specialists and mentors.

The winners of the championship were congratulated by the rector of IRNTU Mikhail Kornyakov. 

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