Future CIS engineers offered their solutions for the development of the Arctic

The qualifying stage of the "Electric Power Industry" direction of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" took place at the NRU "MEI".

The qualifying stage, which was held in the format of a teleconference, was attended by teams representing the leading technical universities of the CIS countries: Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.:

• Almaty University of Energy and Communications
• Belarusian National Technical University
• Gomel State Technical University named after P.O.Sukhoi
• Kyrgyz State Technical University named after I. Razzakov
• M.Auezov South Kazakhstan State University

During the competition, each team presented a solution to one of two engineering cases – industry-specific practical tasks aimed at the development of the Arctic region of Russia and developed based on materials from leading energy companies. Both cases were devoted to the development of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug's energy system.

According to the materials case JSC "SO UES" The participants developed an external power supply project for the Yamal-LNG plant located in the village of Sabetta in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, designed to process natural gas extracted on the Yamal Peninsula and ship liquefied natural gas through the port to tankers.

Participants who solved the case based on the materials FGC UES PJSC It was necessary to analyze the current state of the electric grid complex of FGC UES PJSC in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.

In addition, the participants' decisions should also ensure maximum energy efficiency and energy conservation: a question on this topic was included in the case at the initiative of Transneftenergo.

The ideas of future engineers were evaluated by experts − representatives of industry companies, including JSC SO UES, PJSC FGC UES, JSC STC UES (Moscow Branch), LLC Massa, the Moscow branch of the Izolyator Plant, LLC Inter RAO – Engineering, as well as representatives of the faculty the composition of the NRU "MEI".

"The works submitted for consideration by the expert commission were performed at a sufficiently high technical level for students, however, the teams lacked experienced mentors who were able to direct their students in the right direction when solving certain tasks of the case, as well as adjust the information included in the presentations later. The members of the expert commission agreed on the need to assign a specific mentor to each of the teams when holding similar competitions in the future."− the chief expert of Inter RAO – Engineering LLC, member of the A1 Rotating Electric Machines Subcommittee, commented on the decisions of the participants CIGRE RNC Maxim Fedotov.

 According to the results of the qualifying stage, the finalist teams were determined.:

• Almaty University of Energy and Communications: the team "Lift the virgin land!"
• Belarusian National Technical University: Reactor team
• Gomel State Technical University named after P.O. Sukhoi: the "Impulse" team
• Kyrgyz State Technical University named after I. Razzakov: Zarde team
• M. Auezov South Kazakhstan State University – Tulpar team

The "Reactor" team was named the best team.» Belarusian National Technical University: Vitaly Rachkevich, Alexander Kazlovich, Stanislav Shvyrev, Ekaterina Gornovskaya. 

The teams recognized as the best will represent their university in the final of the Student League. The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which will be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2018.