CASE-IN in Kuzbass: the best student solutions for security and digitalization

On April 7, KuzSTU hosted the qualifying stage of the Student League of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. 

Partner of the Electric Power Industry direction The speaker is PJSC Federal Grid Company – Rosseti. The case is devoted to the urgent problem of ensuring energy security in the context of growing cyber and information threats to the electric grid infrastructure.

The work of the participants was evaluated by experts: senior lecturer of the Department of Power Supply of Mining and Industrial Enterprises Ivan Paskar, Head of the Department of Technological Development, Innovation, Energy Conservation and Energy Efficiency Improvement of the branch of PJSC ROSSETI Siberia – Kuzbassenergo-RES Andrey Petrishchev, Senior Engineer of the Relay protection and Automation Service of PJSC ROSSETI Siberia - Kuzbassenergo RES Nikita Lisovenko, Associate Professor of the Department of Power Supply of Mining and Industrial Enterprises Vyacheslav Voronin, Associate Professor of the Department of Electric Drive and Automation Alexander Grigoriev, Associate Professor of the Department of Electric Drive and Automation Vladislav Negadaev, shift supervisor at Kemerovo CHPP Anton Mozgovoy.

13 teams participated in the direction, the victory was won by the Kuzbass Express team, which included undergraduates from the Institute of Energy Anastasia Ustyuzhanina, Muhammad Kurbanbayev, Yaroslav Avdeev and third-year student Alexey Alyamkin.

Their solution was to create a comprehensive attack detection system at different levels: substation, transmission line, consumer. At the same time, each level had its own types of protection.

"The integration of all protections will make it possible to secure substations, power lines and consumers from all sides, including preventing the threat and eliminating it in case of loss of dispatcher control, as we have proposed a unified algorithm for detecting and eliminating cyber attacks," said Anastasia Ustyuzhanina, captain of the team.

The winners of the direction were:

• 2nd place - the "100kWt" team
• 3rd place - the "Energy Vectors" team

The case of the direction "Thermal power Engineering" It is devoted to the development of a digital process model of a thermal power plant power unit with the creation of a digital twin of one of its critical nodes. Gazprom Energoholding LLC is a strategic partner.

Veronika Gorina, Senior lecturer of the Department of Thermal Power Engineering, Associate Professor of the Department of Thermal Power Engineering, is among the experts of the direction. Konstantin Ushakov, Professor of the Department of Thermal Power Engineering Alexander Bogomolov, Associate Professor of the Department of Thermal Power Engineering Elena Temnikova, Associate Professor of the Department of Thermal Power Engineering Igor Dvorovenko, Associate Professor of the Department of Thermal Power Engineering Sergey Shevyrev, Senior Engineer of the Production and Technical Department of Kemerovo GRES Vitaly Petrakov.

Thermoeds performed the best out of eight teams in this task The team consists of Pavel Fadeev, a master's student at the Institute of Energy, Egor Yeremeyev, a third-year student, Anastasia Zhdanova, and Elizaveta Ryabchenkova, a third-year student at IITMA.

In the Boiler Designer program, the students created a digital twin of the TP-87-1 boiler unit, which works in conjunction with a steam turbine unit. This model acts as a source of initial steam parameter data for further modeling of the turbine unit.

"With regard to the useful use of the digital twin for station personnel, it should be noted that the modern approach to training operational personnel is situation assessment trees, so we decided to modernize them. The upgrade consisted of using a digital doppelganger to check certain conditions to determine the causes of emergency situations at the station. This will lead to a reduction in the average training period for operational personnel, since the use of a digital twin reduces the period of understanding the impact of changes in steam flows on the operation of the entire turbine. Another doppelganger can be used in the activities of the station's engineer on duty, thereby simplifying the determination of the parameters of the turbine units to carry the required load according to the schedule," said team member Egor Yeremeyev.

The winners of the direction were:

• 2nd place - AMD team
• 3rd place - "Hearts of the System" team, KuzSTU branch in Prokopyevsk

Reference. The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, the Astralogica company and the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities".

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