All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship: the third time in the Urals!

On April 14, 2015 in Yekaterinburg, two reputable universities in the Ural region, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin and Ural State Mining University, will host the qualifying stages of all three leagues of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship: mining, geological exploration and electric power industry.

The stages of the Championship in Yekaterinburg will become a grand competition for more than 120 future fuel and energy industry specialists, which will be held with the participation of experts from relevant government departments, management and teaching staff of two key universities in the region, representatives of leading companies of the Russian fuel and energy complex. The moderator of the events will personally be the leader of the organizers of the Championship, Director of the Reliable Change Foundation, Chairman of the Board of NP Youth Forum of Mining Leaders Artem Korolev.

Ural Federal University and Ural State Mining University are strategic training centers for future fuel and energy specialists not only for the Urals, but also for the whole of Russia. Mining University has been participating in the Championship for the third year, and in 2013, the university won the Energy of Education award for the best organization of the stage at the university, and the Mining team won the silver medal at the Championship finals. UrFU students are not inferior to miners in the experience of solving cases: in 2014, the UralENIN UrFU team participated in another major project of one of the organizers of the Championship, the Reliable Change Foundation, the Interregional Educational Forum Energy of Youth. Within the framework of the Forum, the participants solved the case "Development of the energy system of the Crimean Peninsula".

UrFU students of the Department of Energy will be the first to compete for a ticket to the finals of the Championship. The competition will begin at 10.00 a.m. at the Ural Energy Institute, Yekaterinburg, Sofya Kovalevskaya St., 5, UralENIN UrFU Conference Hall.

The championship is actively supported by regional authorities, and the stages in Yekaterinburg will be held with the support of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region. Representatives of the Ministry of Energy and Housing of the Sverdlovsk Region and the Ministry of Industry and Science of the Sverdlovsk Region will take part in the opening of the qualifying stage of the League for Electric Power Industry. The participants and guests of the Championship are welcomed by the heads of UrFU and UralENIN UrFU: Sergey Knyazev, UrFU Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs; Sergey Sarapulov, Director of UralENIN UrFU, Adviser to the Minister of Industry and Science of the Sverdlovsk Region;  Peter Erokhin, Advisor to the Director of JSC SO UES, Professor of the UralENIN UrFU Department of Automated Electrical Systems.

As part of the competition, 14 teams will present their case solutions.  "Development and selection of the optimal scheme for the supply of electric energy to a thermal power plant during its reconstruction".   The decisions of the participants will be evaluated by an expert jury consisting of experts from the Ministry of Energy and Housing of the Sverdlovsk region; representatives of the Ural energy companies: the Branch of JSC SO UES "United Dispatch Management of the Ural Energy System", the Sverdlovsk branch of JSC Volzhskaya TGC, the Branch of JSC STC UES "Automatic Control Technologies"; the coordinators of the subcommittee C6 NP RNK CIGRE"; UralENIN UrFU faculty.

The Championship competitions in Yekaterinburg will be continued by future geologists and mining engineers: the stages of the mining and exploration leagues will be held at the Ural State Mining University. The event will start at 14.00. at the address Yekaterinburg, Kuibyshev St., 30, Tsar's Hall.

The opening of the stage will be attended by representatives of the Department of Subsoil Use for the Ural Federal District (Uralnedra), the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region, and the heads of UGSU.

In the mining league, 16 teams will present their ideas for solving the case "Choosing the most efficient option for a mining and transportation complex and improving its efficiency". The participants of the Geological exploration League (4 teams) must solve the case "Increasing the profitability of a deposit based on a geological study with the preparation of a work project".

Representatives of mining companies and departments of the Urals will act as experts of the jury of the mining and exploration leagues.: Uralasbest OJSC, the Department of Subsoil Use in the Ural Federal District (Uralnedra) and a professor at UGSU. Scientists from the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Mining were also invited to evaluate the students' ideas, including Artem Zhuravlev, a participant in the 2013 All-Russian Mining Case Solving Championship and now a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Quarry Transport Systems and Geotechnics at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Mining.

The result of the most difficult struggle will be a ticket to the finals. Three finalist teams, one team in each league, will represent their universities and the entire Middle Urals at the grand final of the Championship in Moscow on May 28-29, 2015.

The general partners of the Championship are: JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System", JSC "Siberian Coal Energy Company", Micromine company, JSC "MHC "EuroChem", JSC "Siberian Generating Company", EVRAZ company and JSC "Raspadskaya Coal Company", RUSDRAGMET Management Company, LLC "Dassault System Geovia RUS".

Stage Partners: JSC Uralasbest, JSC Volzhskaya TGC KES-holding, JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System.

Learn more about the Mining League stage

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Learn more about the Electric Power Industry League stage