Science and technics

Lecture materials are tailored to the needs of the oil & gas industry.

An innovative turbo-generator, designed at Ufa State Aviation Technical University, will be shown off at MAKS-2021.

An enhanced generator will work as a starter, too.

On Wednesday, 17 March, Mining Museum, St. Petersburg, informed it had concluded experiments on removing toxic impurities from wastewater. The experiments were carried out using mineral samples from the museum’s vaults, reports the press office of the city’s largest natural-scientific exposition.  The peculiarity of the solution lies in the filtering material capable of trapping even the most toxic components. Iron-manganese nodules were used as a barrier for wastewater treatment.

A new computer modeling technology allows to more accurately predict the impact of earthworks on nearby buildings.

On the Day of Russian Science, the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University emphasized that the research, which is conducted at Russian universities, should be aimed primarily at solving strategic and tactical state problems. At the same time, it is the state, represented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, that should become their customer.

Khazret Sovmen, former head of the Republic of Adygeya, has allocated personal funds for 62 grants for young scientists of the St. Petersburg Mining University. What kind of research will this money be used for and why would the well-known philanthropist, the founder of one of the world’s largest mining companies, Polyus, finance university science?

A digital modeling software complex began operating at St. Petersburg Mining University. This is a high-performance computing cluster, which allowed the university’s scientists to take their research to a fundamentally different level. Forpost found out what opportunities have opened up for them after the new laboratories were put into operation, and why the status of scientific organizations in the modern world largely depends on the availability of such platforms.

The association of engineering universities is becoming the largest in Russia. On Thursday, December 24, at the online meeting of the Nedra Consortium of Universities, 25 more universities joined. Today the Consortium already has 50 members.

This going away year was significantly more difficult than the previous one, especially because of the coronavirus, but the university managed to improve all of its key performance indicators. On Friday, December 25, the University’s Academic Council held its final meeting of 2020. The main issue on the agenda was Rector Vladimir Litvinenko’s report on the main results of the year.