The qualifying round of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship has ended in Tomsk

SIBUR became a strategic partner of the new Petrochemistry branch of the Student League of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which was inaugurated on March 15 at Tomsk Polytechnic University. For two days, students from two Tomsk universities, NEITHER TPU nor TSU, competed in solving real production cases. The qualifying stages were held in five areas at once: "geological exploration", "metallurgy", "petrochemistry", "oil and gas business", "electric power industry".

The teams "United Kingdom of Chemistry" (NEITHER TSU) and "Philosopher's Stone" (NEITHER TPU) won in the direction of "petrochemistry". Now they will compete in the finals of the CASE-IN championship in Moscow, which will be held in May this year.

 In the qualifying round, the teams got a case study of a production project for deep processing of by-products of oil and gas production in Western Siberia. To solve it, the guys had to study the details of Russia's largest oil and gas complex construction project, ZapSibNeftekhim in Tobolsk.

 Artur Kovin, Chairman of the Petrochemistry jury and Chief Expert of SIBUR LLC, noted that this was a rather complicated case.

 "The guys took a comprehensive approach to solving the problems. The winning teams presented really high-quality work, delved deeply into the topic, worked it out in detail. Many interesting and unexpected solutions have been proposed that do not immediately come to mind. In principle, some of this can be applied in our production facilities. There were also solutions from the field of fiction, but this is also good – if a person can think outside the box, he will be able to find a solution in difficult situations. This is the level of engineers, not just students.", – underlined Arthur Covin.

 For example, the team of TPU "Philosopher's Stone" proposed to install a new technological installation for cleaning raw materials in production from the sulfur contained in it.

 "We consider it economically advantageous to build a second processing line at an azeotropic propane purification plant for methanol. This will ensure the alternating operation of the two lines and extend their service life without stopping for scheduled repairs.", – said the captain of the "Philosopher's Stone" team Alexander Krutey.

 The team also came up with the idea of using a short-cycle hydrogen adsorption unit, which is obtained after the pyrolysis (thermal decomposition) stage of raw materials, to purify hydrogen from impurities. In the future, it can be sent to the polymer production stage. The students calculated that the construction of such conversion plants would create an economic benefit of several million rubles.

"Petrochemistry is a very complex industry. Therefore, it is important for a modern specialist not only to have deep basic knowledge, but also to develop non-standard thinking, communication skills, defend his point of view and be responsible for the decisions made. The CASE-IN championship allowed the guys to test themselves how ready they are to work in changing conditions", – commented the Director of Personnel Management of the Tomsk site Andrey Belov.

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