Mining has once again chosen its leaders at TulSU

The championship is held in the format of a face-to-face competition among university students who, in teams, solve engineering cases in the field of mining, dedicated to real production problems and developed based on materials from industry enterprises.

Tula State University participates in the championship for the sixth year in a row.

The theme of the current championship is the development of the Arctic.

"Today, we are waiting for interesting solutions from TulSU students that will help in the development of the territories of the Arctic zone deposits."- said the representative of the Organizing Committee The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" Anastasia Alexandrovna Cherednichenko.

The essence of the case is as follows. At the end of 2017, the Severnye Ugli company decided to acquire a license to develop a coal deposit located in the north of Yakutia near a seaport. The preliminary technical and economic assessment indicates the high commercial attractiveness of the development of this deposit.

The participants of the regional stage had to analyze the climatic, infrastructural, and mining-geological conditions of the Oleninsky deposit, determine the factors influencing the choice of production technology, efficiency, and stability of the Kholodny mine.

The motto of the championship was the words of the French revolutionary, military and political figure of the Great French Revolution Louis Antoine Leon de Saint Just: "Only those who fight win."

And today five teams fought for the victory. Blessing them for an intellectual battle, Nikolai Mikhailovich Kachurin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Geotechnology and Construction of Underground Structures, emphasized that solving cases is a successful way to train personnel. Professor Kachurin wished all the participants success and assured the guys that he would be rooting for everyone.

The fifth-year students joined the team "From the bowels of the Earth" Nikita Sukhopleshchenko, Anton Pronikov, Vladimir Afonin and Alexander Chernikov.

"We propose to enrich the coals by partial gasification using the Thermocox technology.", — reported Nikita, — uhThat's an effective way! Thanks to him, Russia will not depend on external revenues of coking coal, which will allow metallurgy and energy to reach a new level."

The Na Gora team consists of fourth-year students Dmitry Serikov, Valeria Selidei, Nikita Bodrov and Vladislav Vinogradov. The guys came up with the idea of briquetting coal to avoid its freezing.

— We also propose upgrading the excavator bucket by using double walls in it and installing a refrigerant between them. 

Fourth-year students Andrey Begansky, Ilya Melnikov, Dmitry Bulanov and Alexander Myskov They named their team the Berg Collegium. The guys are convinced of the need to use renewable energy sources, namely wind turbines. And the transportation of minerals must be carried out by means of an overhead cargo cable car.

There are third-year students in the Cold SNiP team Artem Zaitsev, Alexey Tolkachev, Vladimir Ponomarev and Ivan Rozhentsev. They believe that coal should be transported via a pipeline with a cable car inside. All this will reduce transportation costs.

Third-year students Danila Dorogov, Alexey Belov, Andrey Zakharov and Ivan Selishchev The Dungeon 18 team made a proposal to use all available resources to develop the "Cold" section. Reserves of substandard coal, including. The guys also spoke in favor of wind farms, fuel storage hangars and a freight cable car for transporting coal. 

The solutions of the case were evaluated by an expert commission, which included representatives of the fuel and energy complex of the region and teachers of the Institute of Mining and Construction of TulSU.

The struggle, as they say in sports, was stubborn.

The winner of the qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN (Mining League)" was the team "From the bowels of the Earth".

Students will have to defend the honor of their university and the Tula region at the finals of the championship, which will be held on May 30-31 in Moscow.

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