SGK specialists joined the expert commission of the CASE-IN championship

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an educational project aimed at identifying and supporting active, talented and motivated students and postgraduates in the energy and mining fields.

Employees of the Siberian Generating Company (SGC) participated in the work of the expert commission of the qualifying round of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which was held at Kuzbass State Technical University (KuzSTU). According to the Public Relations service of SGK, Igor Abukhovsky, a leading engineer of the information and operational notification department of the Kuzbass branch of SGK, and Yuri Barnaev, an engineer at the SGK Training Center in Kemerovo, evaluated the solutions of the electric power industry case presented by students of the KuzSTU Institute of Energy.

"The most courageous and inquisitive university students have gathered here. Students learn to find and substantiate their ideas from a technical, scientific and economic point of view — this is what companies in the real sector of the economy require from specialists., — emphasized by the acting rector of Kuzbass State Technical University Andrey Krechetov at the opening of the championship. — Therefore, the championship site is mutually beneficial and mutually interesting. From young people, production workers receive dozens of non-standard ideas to solve their problems. And, as far as I know, some of them actually find application in the work of enterprises."

This year, the young scientists were offered the case "Energy at the edge of the earth." The students developed and presented their engineering ideas for the development of external power supply to the Yamal—LNG plant, built in the village of Sabetta, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. In the harsh conditions of the Arctic, the company processes natural gas produced on the Yamal Peninsula and ships liquefied natural gas through the port on tankers. 

Among the 2-4 "keys" to the case offered by the students were more rational, pragmatic ones, and vice versa — innovative, non-standard, requiring large investments. But the most competent technical solution to the case, with a clear justification of costs, deadlines and payback, was presented, according to experts, by the team of fourth-year students "Evening Translator".

"We have proposed to build a substation on the territory of the Yamal-LNG plant, and to carry out reconstruction at the substation in the city of Salekhard. Salekhard has a connection with the UES of Russia, so it will be possible to connect the plant to the UES of Russia via a direct current network."- said the captain of the team Anton Yevtushenko.

"The winner has been chosen, but all the teams, without exception, showed excellent results, — noted Yuri Abukhovsky. — It is clear that the guys took their participation in the championship seriously, invested their knowledge and creativity in solving the problem, and analyzed a large amount of information. I'll give you a simple piece of advice: go to work in production, the only way you can become real professionals.".

The qualifying stages of the engineering championship in the regions of Russia and neighboring countries will last until the end of May. The winners of the Kuzbass regional stage will represent KuzSTU and compete for the title of the best engineering teams at the CASE-IN-2018 finals in Moscow on May 30-31.

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