18 teams are competing in the semi-finals of the CASE-IN Thermal Power Engineering Championship.

18 student teams will present solutions for the development of thermal power engineering in the semi-finals of the XIII season The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is included in  the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", and is also included in the "Science to Win" initiative of the plan for the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia.

At the qualifying stages in the field of Thermal Power Engineering, held on the basis of 12 specialized universities in Russia, students in teams solved tasks on the main theme of the season "Technological Innovations", and then presented their developments to experts. Students whose universities did not host competitions became participants in the remote open qualifying stage.

The task for the contestants was prepared by Gazprom Energoholding LLC, the partner company of the championship. Future thermal power engineers will present ideas for the use of non-gas heat supply sources and thermal energy accumulators for consumer heat supply.

On April 18 and 22, teams from 17 universities will compete in the semifinals.:

1. "4 Gigacalories", St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design
2. "52", Kazan State Power Engineering University
3. BKZ-820, Irkutsk National Research Technical University
4. BCC, Northeastern Federal University named after M. K. Ammosov
5. Q, Fraternal State University
6. Iskra Design Bureau, Saratov State Technical University named after Yuri Gagarin.
7. Svetolikie, Russian University of Transport
8. Sirius, Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
9. "Through the Snow", National Research University "MEI"
10. "Thermal Visionaries", Ivanovo State Power Engineering University named after V. I. Lenin
11. Teploudar, a branch of the National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky
12. Thermoids, Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev
13. Khabenergo, Far Eastern State University of Railway Transport
14. "Digital Engineers", St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics
15. "Power Engineers", N.P.Ogarev Mordovian State University
16. GreenGoats, Samara State Technical University
17. Little Hope, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
18. Turbo Perchik, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design

The decisions of the teams will be reviewed by an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies, organizations and specialized universities, and the authors of the best ideas will go to the finals of the championship.

The semi–finalist team of BKZ-820 (Irkutsk National Research Technical University) is determined to win.

"Students needed to find technical solutions for a decentralized heat supply system. The team proposed to place such a system on the territory of a woodworking industry and a livestock farm. The complex may be appropriate in a village where there are similar facilities", – informed team captain Nikita Pinyagin.

According to students from Irkutsk, the boiler will burn waste from woodworking and agriculture. It is proposed to additionally equip the device with an innovative cyberphysical system.

One of the rivals of the students of IRNTU will be the Thermoids team (Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev).

Representatives of Kuzbass have developed a pyrolysis plant to provide consumers with heat and hot water. They suggest using woodworking waste and sunflower seeds as raw materials. According to the technological scheme of production, raw materials enter the pyrolysis plant through a conveyor belt, and the output is synthesis gas with a maximum capacity of 450 kg/h, which is burned in a hot water boiler to provide consumers with heat and hot water.

"In addition to synthesis gas, we receive associated resources that we can use. For example, the solid residue is perfect as a sorbent for wastewater treatment or reclamation of agricultural land, pyrolysis liquid as an additive to low–grade fuels. It also provides for the sale of heat to nearby enterprises in case of their interest.", – He told me Captain of the Thermoids team Pavel Fadeev.

According to the semi-finalists, the solution is able to completely recycle waste from processing plants, reduce the cost of tariffs, reduce harmful emissions into the atmosphere and the risk of fires.

In the final at the end of May 2025 in Moscow, the youth teams will present the final decisions to the industry community. The champions and prize-winners of the Student League will receive preferential conditions for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at 55 specialized universities, internships and internships in partner companies, as well as trips to industry youth educational forums. 

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is held with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities". The championship is supported by 170 major partners, from federal agencies, including the Ministry of Energy of Russia, the Ministry of Construction of Russia, the Ministry of Labor of Russia, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Ministry of Education of Russia, Rosmolodezh, to companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the oil and gas, petrochemical and nuclear industries, metallurgy, architectural and construction design and other industries.

The organizers of the CASE-IN championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the presidential platform Russia — the Land of Opportunities, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, and AstraLogica LLC.

The project is included in the "Science to Win" initiative of the plan for the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia.   The championship is held as part of the implementation of the federal project "Russia – the land of opportunities" of the national project "Youth and Children".