BRICS specialists presented breakthrough projects at the CASE-IN Championship

At the BRICS League of Young Professionals competitions, held as part of the XIV International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, participants presented innovative projects at the intersection of energy, economics and environmental protection. The Expert Commission of the BRICS Track Championship was headed by Irina Ananich, Deputy Head of the Directorate of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

The teams have prepared projects in the energy sector aimed at solving current problems and based on the principles of a closed-loop economy. According to the terms, all business models provided for the possibility of scaling and developing cooperation within the framework of the BRICS.

About 50 projects were presented at the qualifying stage for the BRICS track, but only 11 of the strongest teams from eight countries of the association reached the final of the competition: Russia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, China, Ethiopia and South Africa.

The victory was won by the South African team with a project to place wind turbines on airships. The Egyptian team, which took the second place, proposed a comprehensive optimization of the industrial cluster's energy supply on an AI platform through the reuse of heat from industrial enterprises. The honorary "bronze" was awarded to the Indian team for a project to use geopolymers instead of traditional cement.

Participants from Russia at the championship presented a project for the production of precious metals through biological leaching technology using bacteria, which allows the most complete extraction of non-ferrous and precious metals from industrial waste, the volume of which can reach 95-98% for non-ferrous metal ores. The development was highly appreciated by specialists at the competition and may find application in non-ferrous metallurgy in the future.

"The highest level of project development confirms the willingness of the participants to solve the most difficult tasks in the energy sector and related industries. These developments, which differ both in technical depth and in the originality of management decisions, open up new horizons for sustainable development and the development of international energy cooperation within the framework of BRICS," said Irina Ananich.

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