Timiryazev's engineering solution was evaluated at the CASE-IN championship

Moscow student teams demonstrated outstanding results in the final of the XIV season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is supported by the Presidential Platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities".

Among the winners is the team of the Russian State Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev, which proposed an innovative technology for the bioindustry and digitalization of production.

The BioSveg team, which included Marina Loginova, Tatiana Yanikeeva, Irina Sukhanova and Artem Nikolaenko, won silver medals at the championship. The students have developed a project for a full cycle of waste recycling into high—margin products - citric acid and furfural.

The key technological feature of the project was the method of "organosolvent" pretreatment of raw materials using acetone and sulfuric acid. Experts paid special attention to the digital component: the integration of artificial intelligence and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for monitoring reactor operation and predictive analysis of equipment condition.

According to the forecasts of the developers, the placement of production in the SEZ "Green Valley" will provide annual revenue of 4,055 million rubles with a net profit of 1,355 million rubles. The payback period of the project is only 2.8 years.

Acting Director of the Institute of Agrobiotechnology Alexandra Shitikova emphasized: "Silver at such a large—scale championship is a recognition of the high level of practice-oriented training in Timiryazevka. Our guys compete on equal terms with the best engineering staff, solving the real tasks of industry leaders.».

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