The selection stage of the Student League of the CASE-IN Championship was held at TIU

Tyumen Industrial University is hosting the qualifying stage of the Student League of the VII International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which this year is held under the general theme "Digital Transformation". Of these, the flagship university will determine the best in three areas — "Oil and gas business", "Petrochemistry", "Electric power industry".

In total, 130 students from 34 teams representing Tyumen Industrial University, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Omsk State Technical University (OmSTU), Ural State Mining University, Tobolsk Industrial Institute of TIU and Surgut State University are taking part in the competition.

The participants of the championship were welcomed by Olga Maslova, a representative of the Reliable Change Foundation, Veronika Efremova, Acting Rector of TIU, representatives of PJSC Tatneft and SIBUR Holding, strategic partners of the Oil and Gas Business and Petrochemistry areas of the championship.

"This is a significant event not only for the university, but also for the region as a whole! It is no coincidence that the competitions that we are hosting today are held in priority areas of training for the university and are united by a single theme "Digital Transformation". We are a core university, and we are responsible for diversifying the region's economy. As you know, the Tyumen Region is associated with the brilliant development of the oil and gas industry. It sets us the task of information saturation and changing approaches to informatization, so the influx of thinking youth to the region is most welcome. We really need you, with your intelligence and innovative solutions. Today, it is you who determine the future of the country and ensure the success of its economic development."- I turned to the guys Veronika Vasilyevna.

Immediately after that, the participants presented to the expert commissions their solutions to engineering cases – practical tasks for which they were given only ten days.

Oil and gas business

The largest number, namely 14 teams, were represented in the field of "Oil and gas business". It was attended by students of TIU, TPU, OmSTU, Ural Mining University.

This year, Tatneft is the general partner of the case, which invited the participants to develop the non-existent Tsentralnoye field and improve its operational efficiency using various methods, including special attention to digitalization.

"It is worth saying that sleeping for several hours a day for a week is not an easy task. But in order to present a well—developed material, we had no other choice," comments a representative of the Black Bars team, member of the student scientific society Arctic Research Community Anton Shirokikh.

Over the past two years, the team members have repeatedly won many conferences and competitions, but they are participating in the CASE-IN for the first time, as well as first-year students of the EG Graduate School of Engineering. Tyumen Industrial University.

"For us, the CASE-IN is not just a competition, but a chance, thanks to which we have the opportunity to test our strength and gain tremendous experience. To solve the resulting engineering case, we analyzed the options that already exist on the market and chose the most productive and economical ones.", — tells Stepan Pestsov.

The Oil 3007 team is among the experienced participants of the champion. Last year, she took 3rd place in the regional tour.  This year, the guys are hoping for a better result. As a technology, they proposed the use of an intelligent neural network. The advantage of this technology is remote access to the field.

"Some of us were calculating stocks, while others were thinking about which technologies to use under the given case conditions. We have studied various literary sources on the construction and technologies of well completion in the Republic of Tatarstan. Based on the analyzed material, we proposed specific methods to increase the KIN (oil recovery coefficient) of the field, assessed the risks and calculated the economic efficiency of the proposed technological solutions", — said the participant Ekaterina Golozubenko.

Petrochemicals

Ten teams announced their participation in the direction of "Petrochemistry". All of them represent one university – Tyumen Industrial University, including the TIU branch in the city of Tobolsk.

"Our specialists were directly involved in the development of the case that the guys are currently undergoing. The company is a strategic partner of this direction not only in Tyumen, but also in other regions where the qualifying stages of the championship will take place. My colleagues and I are planning a trip to Kazan in April."- said the leading specialist of the recruitment department of SIBUR LLC . Tobolsk" Olga Sirostan.

According to her, the CASE-IN gives SIBUR the opportunity to find promising young specialists. "It is at such an event that they can be found. There are non-standard cases here, they require a non-standard approach and flexible thinking."- the specialist notes.

All members of the Oilmen team study in the same group in their second year at the TIU Institute of Industrial Technology and Engineering. The guys are taking part in the CASE-IN for the second time, last year they won the third prize at the qualifying stage.

"We were in our first year and we still couldn't come up with something grandiose or innovative. But we tried to understand the production, to understand how it works. This is the most important thing that was extracted from the last time. This year, we think we've come up with some really interesting ideas. If the company had implemented them, it would have had a good economic effect.", — one of the "Oilmen" shares Nikita Safin.

Electric power industry

"This year, the tasks in our area are more specific, because they relate to digitalization, and the corresponding regulation in the electric power industry was signed only on December 18, 2018. Therefore, the cases for the guys are very relevant, but there is still very little information available on them. Last year's case dealt with the analysis of the current situation and the technical analysis of the northern networks. This year we are talking about the energy system, which has recently been connected to the UES, and its digitalization. Plus, the task from the system operator is always an order of magnitude more intelligent."— the chairman of the expert commission, Acting Head of the Department of Electric Power Engineering of TIU, Associate Professor, evaluated the new case . Guzel Khmara.

Despite the complexity of the task, the number of people willing to participate in the CASE-IN championship has not decreased. The Electric Power Industry field is still the largest in the Student League, covering 35 universities.

Eight teams met at TIU, representing Tyumen Industrial University, the TIU branch in Tobolsk, as well as Surgut State University.

"In the field of electric power industry, there are devices that monitor the so-called transients. They are installed all over Russia, but there are practically none in the East. Our task was to simulate the situation and calculate the installation of monitoring systems, to justify our decision."— a participant of the championship (the Thunder team), a third-year student of TIU, told about the essence of the task Evgeny Popov.

According to him, the case simulates an unusual situation that can be identified in production and a specialist must solve it. "For us, as students, this is a great opportunity to try ourselves as active engineers"- the young man noted.

Source: Tyumen Industrial University