Four IRNTU student teams reached the finals of the CASE-IN championship

The student teams of IRNTU Lagrange's Theorem, Union of Mining engineers, Impulse and ABCN successfully defended their projects in the qualifying stage of the VIII International Engineering CASE-IN Championship.

Polytechnic students became finalists in the fields of "Electric power industry", "Oil and gas business", "Geological exploration" and "Mining". Konstantin Suslov, Professor of the Institute of Energy at IRNTU, was a member of the expert committee of the competition.

The case study tournament is included in the presidential platform "Russia is a land of Opportunity". The engineering project is supervised by the Reliable Shift Foundation.

The CASE-IN was created to promote engineering and technical education and attract promising specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

The participants were given tasks on the unified theme of the championship "Technological modernization". The practical tasks are based on the actual production situation and are prepared based on materials from leading companies and departments. In 2020, for the first time, the defense of ideas takes place online.

It should be noted that the CASE-IN championship is held in 57 universities in Russia and the CIS countries. More than ten thousand novice engineers are participating in the new season.

The ABCN team, led by Victoria Piskunova, a graduate student at the Institute of Energy, is making it to the finals of intellectual competitions for the second time. Vladislav Novobritsky and Artur Galfinger, fourth–year students, and Olga Kaimonova, an undergraduate economist, played the roles of relay protection and automation engineer and analyst.

The Polytechnic students got a case on the topic "Technological modernization of the energy interconnection of the CIS and Baltic countries." While completing the task, the team adhered to the statement of the famous publicist Anatoly Wasserman: "You don't have to believe in modernization. It must be done."

"We have proposed a comprehensive solution aimed at increasing the stability of the energy system and the reliability of parallel operation in the CIS and Baltic countries. During the development of the solution, the minutes of the 35th meeting of the Commission for Operational and Technological Coordination (KOTK) were taken as a basis, and technologies were selected to eliminate the problems of interest.

We have provided systems for synchronized vector measurements, monitoring of electrical modes and stability reserves. We also took into account the modernization of automation for the elimination of asynchronous mode and local automation for the prevention of instability, the use of linearized current transformers, hydrogen storage based on water electrolysis," Victoria said.

Evgeny Rudykh, a second-year student, assembled the Lagrange Theorem team from fellow students of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering Mikhail Semykin, Sergey Kobylinsky and Viktor Kovrizhnykh.

"We were solving a case from the Russian gas company Novatek. Based on economic feasibility and logistical constraints, we needed to propose a way to develop one of the company's hard-to-reach gas fields located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. We presented the modernization of the UPM-40 methanol production plant at the Yurkharovskoye field for the production of ammonia and carbamide. The carbamide produced as a fertilizer can be exported by tanker to European countries, as well as to Brazil.

According to our economic calculations, this proposal turned out to be very effective," said Evgeny.

An experienced participant in the case championships, fourth-year geologist Alexander Kalishin teamed up with polytechnic students Ruslan Ilyin, Maria Saprykina and Anastasia Belova in the Impulse team. In the direction of "Geological Exploration", they performed the task from the strategic partner of the ALROSA competition. Future geologists, with the help of initiatives, ensured the effectiveness of diamond mining operations within the Markhinsky site (Yakutia).

"We suggested using aerogeophysical and ground-based work, shlichomineralogical and shallow-volume testing. Our project involves drilling and subsequent laboratory analysis. We also recommended using radio wave geointeroscopy of the inter-well space together with other geophysical methods of well research. In our opinion, this complex of works will allow us to study the area under study in as much detail as possible in order to detect kimberlite bodies," Alexander said.

The winners of the finals in Moscow will receive valuable prizes and the opportunity to participate in the All-Russian industry summer forums. They will have advantages in applying to master's and postgraduate studies, and will also be able to complete internships at major enterprises.

Let us remind you that last year a team of students from IRNTU W:/O/K She became the bronze medalist of the International CASE-IN Championship for Young Engineers in the Digital Atom field. In addition, Irkutsk Polytechnic University was awarded a cup and a prize. "Energy of education"for the best organization and conduct of the qualifying stage.

A source:  IRNITA