Ugra State University students – winners of the "CASE-IN" qualifying stage

Students of the Higher Oil School of Ugra State University became the winners of the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship, which was held in Tomsk. 32 teams competed to reach the semifinals in three areas of the student league - "Electric Power Engineering", "Thermal Power Engineering" and "Geological Exploration".

The SOUTH was represented at the championship by 4th-year chemists Ilya Tumaev, Viktor Kuznetsov and Danil Mansurov, as well as 2nd-year student Irina Gazya.

The general theme of this year's championship is "Lean Manufacturing". For ten days, the teams developed case solutions from leading Russian companies. A team of students from the SOUTH was given the task of improving the operational efficiency of Gubkin and Nizhnevartovsk GPP.

"The idea of introducing a hydrocarbon condensate purification plant at gas processing plants was proposed, similar to the one recently installed by Sibur at the Belozerny gas processing Plant. Ideas were also proposed to improve the quality of purification of the gas mixture in separators by adding mullite adsorbing granules obtained by processing drilling sludge by spontaneous high-temperature synthesis to zeolite, and recommendations were also made to optimize the production process, which increased the useful operating time of the enterprise," said team captain Danil Mansurov.

The students also conducted a serious audit. So, the team made a financial analysis of three plants, evaluated the purchases of enterprises over the past four years, and the main production projects. The participants also assessed the main fields from which APG enters the enterprises (the geographical location of the field, the main oil and gas formations on which the fields are located and the qualitative composition of the gas coming from these fields were identified, and the main mineral composition of the fields was also assessed).

According to the guys, the atmosphere at the championship was competitively healthy: each team demonstrated its knowledge and interesting developments.

According to the results of the championship, the students took the third place.

"The championship provided an interesting experience and sparked inspiration for further development. There were difficulties in combining the two areas - chemical technology and lean manufacturing, but despite this, we rallied and brought the matter to an end," Irina Gazya shared her impressions.

Let's add that the CASE-IN championship is being implemented with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities".

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