The students proposed to create steel for icebreakers and an energy supply system for the plant.

Fuel and energy problems of the Arctic were solved by students of the Ural Federal University on February 27. UrFU students won in two areas (Metallurgy and Electric Power Engineering). They will go to the finals of the international Case-In championship in Moscow, which will be held at the end of May.

The team of metallurgists Kulvimeter and Lapidarity proposed steel for the creation of Arctic icebreakers.

"We have chosen the right material for production that satisfies us in terms of the mechanical properties that apply to steels used in the Arctic region. It is cold-resistant and high-strength, but has not yet been used for the construction of icebreakers. As for the technology, we have chosen a standard technological scheme for steel production and made some changes there. At the moment, steel grade 07G2NMDFT is not used in this production," said Inna Naschetnikova, a student at INMiT UrFU, a member of the winning team.

UrFU students, the ABC team, also won in the field of Electric Power engineering.

The guys suggested creating an energy and heat supply system, as well as an infrastructure option for the facilities of a natural gas liquefaction plant located in the Ob Bay area.

"We have proposed a combined option with the installation of new generating units and power grid equipment, which includes both new developments and conventional, reliable and time-tested models. We tried to choose such an option so that it was both economically beneficial and technologically, which was quite difficult to demonstrate," added Mikhail Zagidullin, a student at UralENIN UrFU.

The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the youth forum of mining leaders and AstraLogica LLC. The association "Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems" is a co-organizer of the League for Electric Power Industry.