Silver and victory in a special nomination: results of KuzSTU in the final of the CASE-IN

The first day of the final stage of the XIV season of the International Engineering Championship CASE-IN has ended in Moscow. The students of Kuzbass State Technical University presented their university with dignity and won several awards at once.

The MILA Team Elizaveta Fila, Alexey Ivanov, Artyom Kuznetsov and Irina Dotsenko took the second place in the field of Petrochemistry.

The participants had to solve a case developed by SIBUR, one of the country's leading petrochemical holdings. The task was dedicated to ensuring Russia's technological sovereignty in the production of organic peroxides. The students were faced with the task of creating a model of import-substituting production using microfluidics, AI and network cooperation.

The KuzSTU team has developed a cluster model for the production of organic peroxides based on microfluidic technologies and artificial intelligence.

*Microfluidic technologies are methods of working with small volumes of liquids and gases in miniature devices similar to chips. They allow you to control, manipulate and analyze liquids on a very small scale.

«Our solution combines ten products into three technology clusters. Low–temperature initiators, substances that are used in the chemical industry to trigger reactions at low temperatures, were chosen as the main cluster. The use of microfluidic synthesis made it possible to switch between the production of products within a cluster in 4-8 hours without stopping production. The use of artificial intelligence has accelerated technological screening and clustering by 24,000 times with 95% accuracy, and outsourcing of four synthesis stages has reduced capital costs by 15-20%," explained Elizaveta Fil.

The proposed solution will make it possible to replace 90% of imports in the segment of low-temperature initiators, create new high-tech jobs and reduce waste disposal volumes.

Another KuzSTU award was brought by the Thermoids team It consists of Pavel Fadeev, Elizaveta Ryabchenkova, Egor Yeremeyev and Anastasia Zhdanova. The students became the best in the "Breakthrough Solution" nomination in the field of Thermal Power Engineering.

The final of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship continues. KuzSTU students have new project defenses ahead of them and the fight for prizes in other areas.

Reference. 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 presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" was created on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 22, 2018. The mission of the platform is to create the future of Russia, opening equal opportunities for everyone.

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