UrFU students who proposed new steel for icebreakers in the final "CASE-IN"

Experts selected the best students of the qualifying stage of the international CASE-IN engineering championship in the field of metallurgy and electric power industry, which was held at Ural Federal University (UrFU). Ural students who have proposed new steel for icebreakers and an energy supply system for a plant in the Arctic will go to Moscow for the final, the university's press service reported on Wednesday.

"The fuel and energy problems of the Arctic were solved by UrFU students in two areas: Metallurgy and Electric Power Engineering. The winners were UrFU students, who will go to the final of the international CASE-IN championship in Moscow, which will be held at the end of May."- they said at the university .

The press service added that one of the winning teams offered new steel to create 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.", - the press service quotes the words of one of the team members Inna Naschetnikova.

The best team in the field of Electric Power engineering was the students who presented the energy and heat supply system, as well as an infrastructure option for the facilities of a natural gas liquefaction plant in the Arctic.

The International CASE-IN Championship is a competition in which student teams solve a case-practical engineering problem in 10 days, based on a real production situation and prepared based on materials from industry enterprises. The teams then defend their ideas before an expert panel, which consists of representatives of industry companies, as well as scientific and educational organizations. The Championship is the legal successor of the All-Russian Mining Case Solving Championship (2013-2014) and the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship (2015).

The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the non-profit partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and Astralogica LLC. This year, 4,000 students from technical universities in Russia and neighboring countries will present cases for solving the problems of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes of the Arctic. Representatives of 52 universities will compete in six industry areas: "Geological exploration", "Mining", "Metallurgy", "Oil and gas business", "Petrochemistry", "Electric power industry".

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