Three student teams from the Tomsk region became the leaders of the CASE-IN championship

The winners and prize-winners of the XIV season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship included students of Tomsk Polytechnic University. They have won awards in three industry areas: "Electric Power Industry", "Oil and Gas business" and "Thermal Power Engineering", offering relevant engineering solutions.

In the Electric Power Industry area, experts recognized the project of the team of Maxim Bastrygin, Maria Sedeleva, Daria Syrovatskaya and Igor Umansky as the best solution. The participants were faced with the task of proposing solutions for updating the General Layout of Russian electric power facilities until 2042, taking into account the growth of energy consumption and changes in the generation structure. Tomsk students have developed a project for the Novosibirsk Region, combining a network of charging stations for electric vehicles and energy storage systems into a single load management tool. According to the authors, storage devices allow storing electricity during periods of low demand and releasing it during peak consumption, reducing the load on the energy system and increasing its stability.

In the field of Oil and Gas business, a team consisting of Ilya Bessonov, Stanislav Gatilov, Stepan Chikurin and Nazar Chuprov developed for the Yakut company the concept of an energy-digital cluster that allows the use of extracted gas in the production region without the construction of main pipelines. The students proposed a system that makes maximum use of the climatic features of the region: to cool the servers, they used outdoor Arctic air cooling technology, which significantly reduces electricity costs. They analyzed all the risks in detail, from the logistical difficulties of delivering equipment to the impact of permafrost on building foundations.

The team of Evgeny Ananyev, Artyom Ovechkin, Dmitry Melikhov and Angelina Tkacheva became the bronze medalist in the field of Thermal Power Engineering. The students have developed a project for a digital twin turbine for a thermal power plant, which is able to predict the occurrence of malfunctions, analyze the technical condition of the equipment and help personnel choose optimal operating modes.

The organizers of the 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 CASE-IN International Engineering Championship is included in the Science to Win initiative and the Decade of Science and Technology plan.

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