Students of St. Petersburg Mining University won two gold medals at the CASE-IN Championship

The final of the XI International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunities platform, took place in Moscow. According to tradition, the Reliable Shift Foundation acted as its organizer, and 156 groups of schoolchildren, students and young professionals participated. They had to present to the experts an effective solution to a real production problem, justifying its economic and technological feasibility.

In the field of "Mining", the first place was taken by the team of the St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II "Million Carats". According to her captain Sergey Barkhatov, the task was to propose an innovative method of strengthening the ledges of the quarry and improve the stability of its sides.

"We have presented a comprehensive solution that helps to increase the stability of the sides of the Yubileyny quarry through the introduction of a deep microseismic monitoring system. In addition, the experts highlighted our proposal to optimize the quarry mining technology through internal dumping of overburden, as well as a thorough study of every aspect of the solution, including its economic component.", - Sergey Barkhatov told the story.

Another team representing the Mining University became the winner in the direction of "Thermal Power Engineering". The young people were faced with the task of identifying the damaged areas of the thermal and mechanical equipment and eliminating the identified defects.

 "We proposed to implement the existing predictive analytics system "PRANA" on waste boilers, as well as install sensors and microphones on the bends of the collector pipes. The signals received from them are processed using machine learning and big data methods, which reduces troubleshooting time and reduces the likelihood of abnormal situations due to equipment failure.", - Ekaterina Sedelnikova, the captain of WeHeat, explained.

It should be noted that the teams of the oldest technical university in Russia also took the second place in the field of Metallurgy and the third place in the field of Electric power engineering. This year's partners of the CASE-IN championship are ALROSA, SIBUR, Schlumberger, Gazstroyprom, System Operator of the Unified Energy System and others.

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