The Russian University of Transport hosted the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship

The qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of "Thermal Power Engineering" was held in Institute of Transport Technology and Control Systems Russian University of Transport.

CASE-IN is an international competition system for solving engineering cases, a team competition to find and select promising students and attract them to further employment in industry companies.

Roman Tarusov, Director, welcomed the participants at the opening. Student Project Activity Center RUT (MIIT), Artur Dmitrenko — Head of the Department of Thermal Power Engineering of Transport, Dmitry Sapov — expert of the Department of Advanced Development and Heat Supply Schemes of PJSC Gazprom Energoholding, Konstantin Kolesnikov — Deputy Head of the Moscow Directorate of Heat and Water Supply of JSC Russian Railways.

The experts were representatives of leading companies in the industry: JSC "Russian Railways", PJSC "MOEK", LLC "Funke-Rus", as well as teachers of the Department of "Thermal Power Engineering of Transport" of the Russian Academy of Technical Sciences (MIIT).

The participants were given the topic "Optimization of the thermal power system". The task is to determine the possibility of switching the load from boiler houses to thermal power plants. 10 teams were announced to participate in the championship, each of which presented its own original solution to the task.

Results:

• 1st place — the "Best Thermal Squad" team: Kirill Volosatov, Artem Taubkin, Evgeny Gostev, Daniil Lapshin. The solution: switching the load from boilers to CHP plants by upgrading the turbine units and increasing their capacity. The equipment was selected and the payback period of the project was calculated, which was 3 years.
• 2nd place — the Energy team: Kirill Istomin, Pavel Kulikov, Valeria Semenova and Alexander Popkov. Solution: after analyzing the generation at the sources and the consumption of thermal energy from consumers, we proposed a new tracing of the networks, as well as the conversion of one of the boiler houses into a mini-CHP, which will ensure the reliability of the heat supply to consumers.
• 3rd place — team "Heat Makers": Dmitry Ukolov, Daria Virskaya, Maxim Shipiev, Nikolai Kozlov. Solution: to ensure reliability and reserve for connecting potential consumers, reconstruct boiler houses into mini-CHP plants, which will reduce the cost of generated energy by 5-7 times, and will also allow, in addition to heat, to receive electrical energy. The team also proposed its own pipeline design, which will help extend their service life.

All participating students study in the field of "Thermal Power Engineering and Heat Engineering" at ITTSU RUT (MIIT).

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