The regional qualifying stage of the CASE-IN Championship is being held in the capital of the Urals.

The regional qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is taking place in Yekaterinburg today. About fifty teams from all over the region take part in intellectual competitions.

Unification of the energy systems of Russia, the CIS and the Baltic States. Fighting the shortage of electricity. The participant of the CASE-IN engineering championship is making a presentation on a topic that has not yet been solved by leading experts in the energy sector.

The teams had only 10 days to develop an action plan and prove to the expert jury that it was their innovative ideas that could fix the problem. One of the suggested options is to build network energy storage devices. These are a kind of batteries that will give off current during a shortage of electricity and store it during an excess. "This will give an impetus to the development of the energy system in underdeveloped regions, and provide uninterrupted power supply to consumers," says Ivan Lomovtsev, a participant in the international engineering championship.

The participants of the championship make a report in three areas. In addition to energy, works in the field of metallurgy and petrochemistry are presented. So, in the same 10 days, future metallurgists were offered to modernize the technology for producing vanadium. This issue is very acute for the industrial complex of the Middle Urals. But, as it turned out, it's not a dead end. The students presented a scheme in which vanadium is obtained by processing sludge, that is, industrial waste. "We tried to cope with this, we raised Rosstat data, took literature from the department. And so, having connected everything, we got something in between," said Anastasia Polyakova, a participant in the international engineering championship. 

The International Engineering Championship is a competition system in which teams temporarily solve so–called case studies of varying complexity. This may be a question of modernizing the nuclear industry, promising ideas for the extraction and processing of oil and gas, plastic recycling, and so on. All reports are evaluated by the judges on a special scale. "We have a basic methodology for evaluating participants' decisions, which consists of criteria such as technology, economics, innovation, and how the team presented and answered questions," said Artem Korolev, founder of the CASE–IN International Engineering Championship.

"Our main task is to train not just individual specialists, but entire project teams that will then work at enterprises in the real sector of the economy," said Viktor Koksharov, Rector of UrFU.

The authors of the best projects will go to the final competitions of the championship in Moscow.

A source: GTRK Ural