Students of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University compete for the main prizes of the CASE-IN championship

The team of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has won the qualifying stage of the XIV season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Thermal Power Engineering.

The competition gathers the strongest students from all over the country. This year, the competition was particularly high. The participants had to not only propose an engineering solution, but demonstrate systems thinking, the ability to work with real production tasks and take into account the economic conditions of modern energy.

It was this approach that allowed the team of students of the Institute of Energy to become leaders. The winners included HSE graduate student Mark Mironchuk, HSE students Georgy Kondratov, Elina Mukhametova and Digital Engineering student Ivan Livertsev.

Their work focuses on the development of a digital model of a power unit with a T turbine.-100/120-130-3 . The project turned out to be as close as possible to the actual operating conditions.

The polytechnics have worked out in detail the thermal technology scheme of the power unit, including all key and auxiliary systems. They analyzed a wide range of non-calculated and transient operating modes, forming the operating characteristics of the unit. We also completed a feasibility study for shutting down a group of high-pressure heaters (LDPE), taking into account the operation of the power unit in the wholesale electricity and capacity market (OREM).

This approach has allowed not only to improve the accuracy of modeling, but also to offer solutions that can be applied in practice to increase the efficiency and flexibility of power units.

"We initially relied on the practical value of the project. I wanted to show not just calculations, but a tool that can be used in the actual operation of power units. The victory is the result of a lot of teamwork and strong preparation," said team captain Mark Mironchuk.

The CASE-IN championship is held with the support of the presidential platform "Russia — the land of Opportunities" and is one of the main platforms for the development of young specialists in the fuel and energy complex. According to the results of last year, SPbPU took the first place in the ranking of the best universities for the fuel and energy sector according to the CASE-IN version, confirming the status of one of the leaders of engineering education in the country.

The victory of the Heat team was a logical continuation of this trend and another proof of the high level of training of university students.

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