PNRPU students are silver medalists of the CASE-IN Championship

The final ended in Moscow on May 22. The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The large-scale competition brought together more than 700 finalists from 15 countries. Following the results of the event, the Perm Polytechnic team took the second place in the field of "Electric Power Industry".

The championship is held with the support of the Presidential Platform "Russia — the land of opportunities". The main theme of this year's season is "Technologies of the Future". The partner companies set tasks for the participants aimed at achieving Russia's technological sovereignty: to ensure the digitalization of the energy sector, to introduce artificial intelligence and digital twins in key industries.

In the final, Perm Polytechnic was represented by three teams from the Faculty of Chemical Technologies, Industrial Ecology and Biotechnology, Mining, Petroleum and Electrical Engineering faculties, as well as the Kogalym branch of PNRPU.

In the field of "Electric Power Industry", silver was won by the ETF team, which also became the best in the video contest among 15 teams. It consists of students: Ekaterina Bukharinova, Sergey Trenogin, Darina Kramer, Viktor Yuzhakov. Polytechnics have proposed an innovative solution for integrating renewable energy sources into a single grid using the example of the Astrakhan region in order to overcome systemic limitations: dispatcher reduction of generation and lack of efficient energy storage technologies.

"The final of the event was a bright and large-scale event. The procedure for defending the reports was intense, there was high competition among the teams, but we were confident in our decision. During the feedback from experts, we were convinced that the technology we proposed was appreciated and it has high practical significance for the development of the energy system. For us, the award is a confirmation that we have been moving in the right direction for several years, strengthening our competencies and developing as engineers. For the first time in the last ten years, our university was among the winners in the field of "Electric Power Engineering" in the final of the championship. I would also like to express my gratitude to our teachers and mentors for their help and support all along our way to the CASE-IN!", he shared Viktor Yuzhakov, student of the PNRPU Faculty of Economics.

The team of the Mining and Petroleum Faculty, which was among the top five, showed a high result in the field of "Oil and gas business". The honor of Perm Polytechnic was defended by students of the Kogalym branch Maxim Uglev and Alexander Gumennikov, as well as representatives of the parent university — Svetlana Berdnikova and Dmitry Musikhin. The result of the joint work was the idea of creating a hyperscale data processing center (DPC) for the efficient use of gas reserves. At the initial stage, it is powered by a gas piston installation, and with an increase in capacity, by a gas turbine. In addition, the engineers have developed a scheme that connects the YATEK and Yakutsk license areas via an overhead line along the existing gas pipeline. A modular data center located directly at the field can provide equipment data collection and processing, digitalization of processes, predictive analytics for compressors, and increased process management efficiency.

"We spent almost two months preparing a solution, and in the end we compared our project with the ideas of other teams — each of them was innovative in its own way. We successfully defended ourselves and received feedback from an expert who called us contenders for victory. However, luck was not on our side this time. The failure to become a prize—winner left a slight disappointment, but most importantly, everyone agreed that the material had become more elaborated, and the performance was confident. During the year of participation in the championship, we gained invaluable experience in performing real production tasks, visited large engineering sites and immersed ourselves in the current problems of the oil industry," he said. Dmitry Musikhin, a student of the GNF PNRPU.

The students of the Faculty of Chemical Technologies, Industrial Ecology and Biotechnologies, who took the sixth place in the field of Petrochemistry, also distinguished themselves. The team performed Anastasia Klimova, Lyudmila Kalinina, Nikita Glukhov and Anton Petukhov. Polytechnics have found a way to localize the production of peroxide initiators, the key substances that trigger the polymer synthesis reaction. It was proposed to create a flexible research and production cluster capable of producing various brands of initiators in accordance with the needs of companies.

"The final gave us a lot of vivid emotions. Strong teams with thoughtful projects gathered around, and the fight was really intense. Therefore, we perceive the sixth place in the final ranking as a worthy result and valuable professional experience. The opening and closing ceremonies were particularly memorable. There was a live concert, and then all the participants from different universities joined together, sang and danced together. This atmosphere of real student fraternity became one of the main impressions of the event for us," he said. Nikita Glukhov, student of the HTF PNRPU.

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