Engineering solutions for the development of the Arctic region were presented by students of IRNTU

The qualifying stage of the international engineering Case-in championship, during which polytechnic students had to solve problems in the field of mining and oil and gas, electric power industry and geological exploration, was held at IRNTU in early March. For the first time at the championship, all participants were invited to work on a common theme: the development of mineral deposits in the Russian Arctic. The winning teams will go to the final competitions in Moscow to defend the honor of the region.

— It is important that the championship provides an opportunity for talented young people to unleash their intellectual potential. The teams include students from different disciplines, which allows us to approach case studies from different angles. The winners of the championship can successfully find a job in the future, including gaining work experience abroad," says Mikhail Kornyakov, Rector of IRNTU.

Case-in is a competition in which engineering students have to look for ways to solve real production problems. This year's championship, which runs from February to April, was contested by 52 major universities in Russia and the CIS countries. Over four thousand students, young professionals and schoolchildren took part in the cases. Competitions were held in six leagues, including metallurgy and petrochemistry. 35 teams applied to IRNTU for participation in the championship.

— This is a unique chance for students to discover their competencies and learn how to work in a team, — says Konstantin Suslov, curator of the project, Professor of the Department of Power Supply and Electrical Engineering at IRNTU. — Each team is recruited solely on the initiative of the students themselves. These are not necessarily excellent students. The main thing is that they think interestingly and generate ideas.

As always, during the competition, the teams completed tasks based on materials from the country's leading industry companies for 10 days. Every time it's a real object and a real problem. This year, future specialists were given the task of preparing engineering solutions on the topic of "Arctic Development".

"The theme of the championship is dictated by the global challenges facing Russia," explained Dmitry Serdyukov, Deputy Head of the Program and Project Development Department at the Reliable Change Moscow Charitable Foundation. — These include the need to develop and develop mineral deposits in the Arctic zone, and, consequently, the need for competent engineering personnel. We expect that involving young people in solving problems in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation will yield concrete practical results: new development ideas, nature-saving technologies for the development and transportation of resources, new forms of cooperation and investment attraction.

To this end, the geological students had to develop an exploration project for a garnet sand deposit in the Arkhangelsk Region during the championship. Future mining engineers were looking for new approaches to the development of a coal deposit in Yakutia. The participants in the Oil and Gas Business area proposed approaches to the development and development of hydrocarbon deposits on the Arctic shelf of the Russian Federation. The task of the future power engineers was to provide external power supply to the Yamal-LNG plant located in the village of Sabetta, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.

"This is a very specific task — to provide external power supply to the FGC UES engineering facility located on the Yamal Peninsula," said Sergey Shargorodsky, a 3rd—year student at the Institute of Energy at IRNTU, captain of the Energoholding team, "and to reduce technological accidents in this region. We have proposed a set of solutions for the construction of power transmission poles, paying great attention to the payback of the project. Economics is one of the most important factors, it is always important to know how profitable an undertaking is.

In our case, it took about 4 billion rubles to normalize the situation, and we were able to prove that these investments would pay off fairly quickly. After all, today a million rubles are spent on repairing each of these power lines in permafrost conditions. Our methodology will help to avoid these endless repairs.

"Such contests are a real opportunity to learn something new," Nikita Goryachev, a 5th-year student at the Institute of Subsoil Management at IRNTU and a member of the Megawatt team, is convinced. — Here we learn to look for non-standard solutions in standard situations, apply the acquired theoretical knowledge. Last year, for example, our team proposed a little-known idea of transporting coal through a pipeline and took the first place. This year, we also proposed to take a new path for the regions — the processing of coal into liquid fuel. As you know, it costs much more, which means that such a project will bring great profits.

Experts, including university professors, as well as representatives of the region's leading enterprises, design organizations and scientific institutions, unanimously note that the level of teams is growing every year. Participants are required not only to have knowledge of engineering, but also to have a good understanding of personnel management, economics and finances of the enterprise. And the winners of the final round, as a rule, receive job offers from the largest industry companies in the country.

"This is my first time acting as a judge in such an event," said Igor Yemelyanov, Head of the Oil and Gas Production Department at Verkhnechonskneftegaz, an expert in the Oil and Gas business, "and I am pleasantly surprised by the level of knowledge of the students of IRNTU. So, in our industry, the guys had to solve a non-standard problem in harsh climatic conditions. The cold waters of the Pechora Sea, the distance from the coast, interruptions in logistics, possible storms, and the formation of hummocks in coastal areas — all this created a whole bunch of problems during the development of the Snezhnoye oil field. To get around them, the teams needed to develop a systematic approach to design, patience and efficiency. I would certainly hire those who succeeded.

All participants of the Case-in, even those who did not win prizes, are confident that such an experience will definitely be useful to them in the future. This time, the winners of IRNTU included the teams Northern Lights (geological exploration), Energy X (electric power industry), and Sun (mining). and "Three operators, not counting the driller" (oil and gas business). They will go to the championship finals, which will be held in Moscow on May 30-31. In the capital, they will compete for the main prize — the opportunity to visit key facilities of the Arctic fuel and energy complex.

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