Polytechnic students won the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship

CASE-IN is one of the projects of the organization "Russia – the land of opportunities". "This is an active social elevator along with such a federal competition as the Leaders of Russia, – Anton INYUTSYN, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, is confident. – Next year, we will give the participants of the championship a new opportunity to express themselves: we will hold the forum "Young Leaders of the Fuel and Energy Complex" especially for the winners of federal industry youth events.

"4V" consists of four participants whose names begin with the letter "V": Victoria VERBNIKOVA (captain) and Victoria SUVOROVA (both IE), Vladimir BODUNOV (ICNT) and Vadim GOLUBEV (IPMEiT). When there are two Victorias in the team, the name suggests itself. But it also obliges us to win.

The team leaders, Olga NOVIKOVA, Associate Professor at the Higher School of Atomic and Thermal Energy, and Nikolai PAVLOV, Master of Electrical Engineering, helped and supported the children in everything.

The theme of the autumn case was "Digitalization of the Far East". Polytechnics were preparing a project for Primorsky Krai "Optimization of the combination of electricity and hydrogen generation based on nuclear power plants." It involves the commissioning of a new nuclear power plant with fast neutron reactors and a hydrogen liquefaction plant, the sea transportation of hydrogen to Japan and the synchronization of new electric power capacities.

"To prepare the project, we used statistics on electricity consumption in Primorsky Krai, data on existing power plants, electricity tariffs and hydrogen prices on the Russian and foreign markets, and other information. Nuclear engineering students from Polytechnic University helped us with consultations., – said the captain of the team Victoria VERBNIKOVA. – In search of a solution, our team created a model for predicting the load in the power grid and calculated economic indicators.". According to Vicky, the most difficult thing in the preparation was to find the time necessary for this, but they coped.

On the first day of the finals, our guys were the last to perform and were a little worried. Nevertheless, we performed well. On the second day, the tension only intensified – the participants were unexpectedly given an additional task: to figure out how to reduce the harmful emissions of the enterprise into the atmosphere and wastewater; to calculate how to use resources efficiently and how much it would cost to reduce the negative impact on the environment.

It took only two hours to complete this task, but since the polytechnic students' project was comprehensively thought out, they managed not only to prepare a solution, but also to make a beautiful presentation. They proposed to direct the carbon dioxide, the production of which accompanies production, to the development of a local greenhouse economy. During the defense of their final work, V4Victory was again the last, but they performed so confidently that they were rewarded with applause from the commission, consisting of 16 industry experts.

The cup and diplomas were presented to the champions by Artem KOROLEV, founder of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, and Gleb NESTERENKO, an expert of the Autumn Cup, the 2017 CASE-IN champion in the field of Electric Power engineering, an engineer at the technological engineering company Energy Storage Systems.

Victoria VERBNIKOVA said that their team met back in the spring at the initiative of Olga Valentinovna NOVIKOVA.: "At that moment, we were collecting and analyzing statistical data. After the summer, we were invited to participate with undergraduates in a project with which we went to the Russian Energy Week and took third place. Then it became obvious that we would be participating in the CASE-IN championship. The team turned out to be well-coordinated, everyone made a great contribution to the creation of the project and to the victory."

But, as they say, a talented person is talented in everything. V4Victory became the best not only in solving the main tasks of the championship. Thanks to Vadim GOLUBEV, who, in addition to his main specialty, is professionally engaged in photography, they won the "Most Popular Team" nomination.

"We had a wonderful video presentation of the team, very atmospheric and beautiful thanks to the guys who were happy to help us.", – shared by Victoria VERBNIKOVA. She herself designed the logo and badge design that the team performed with.

The material was prepared by the Public Relations Department of SPbPU. Text by Ekaterina EFIMOVA

A source: POLYTECH. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University