Science and technics

Since the beginning of the second half of 2024, the global methanol market has shown a steady rise in prices. In the Asia-Pacific region, prices increased by 18% in the third quarter compared to the same period last year. This change in economic conditions has sparked renewed interest in a resource-saving reactor developed by scientists from St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II. The reactor produces syngas, which can subsequently be processed into methanol.

The in-pipe scanner for oil pipelines, developed by scientists from St. Petersburg Mining University, has successfully passed initial testing at the university’s Sablino training facility. The introduction of this invention could help oil transportation companies worldwide significantly reduce energy costs associated with pumping oil through main and inter-field pipelines by promptly detecting water accumulations. For example, Transneft enterprises alone could gain an additional profit of approximately 380 million rubles per year.

The interaction between Iranian and St. Petersburg universities is progressing both thoroughly and rapidly. It would seem that these two definitions should contradict each other, especially in the field of serious research, but in this case, these are certainly compatible parameters. It happens in science.

Two projects of the university scientists took first place in their nominations, three more received silver and bronze awards. On Wednesday, March 27, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University summed up the results of participation in XXVII International Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technologies ”Archimedes”, which was traditionally held in Moscow. This year it gathered representatives of 28 states and 30 regions of our country, together they exhibited 570 developments in 30 different areas.

Professor Alfred Nordmann of the Darmstadt Technical University (Germany) visited St. Petersburg Mining University. The scientist was brought to St. Petersburg by the initiative to hold an international conference on the philosophical understanding of technological progress at the oldest technical university in Russia. The idea has already been supported by leading scientists from the University of Padua (Italy), the University of Groningen (Netherlands), the University of South Carolina (USA), and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Academic Council of the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University has voted to nominate for the Russian Government Prize in Science and Technology 2024 a work dedicated to improving labor safety during the exploitation of deposits located at great depths.

Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University continues a series of laboratory experiments aimed at creating a fundamentally new technology for the production of aluminum. Now it is produced by electrolysis of alumina solution in molten cryolite, and this process takes place in apparatuses with horizontally arranged anode and cathode.

A team from the Department of Architecture of Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University won the competition to create an architectural concept for the integrated modernisation of the Road of Life memorial and landscape complex. Ten fifth-year students under the guidance of Associate Professor Anton Golovin won the final against representatives of the country’s leading architectural universities - the Moscow Architectural Institute and the St Petersburg University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Учёные Санкт-Петербургского горного университета императрицы Екатерины II получили патент на полезную модель «Устройство для выемки волокнистого материала с боковыми режущими парами»

The transfer of knowledge that is not useful in the workplace is perhaps the main problem of higher education in Russia. It is no coincidence that Vladimir Putin’s August instruction to create a sovereign university ranking focuses attention on assessing the employability of graduates. The decree on the pilot project to improve the higher education system (dated 12.05.2023) is also primarily aimed at strengthening the integration of universities with the real economy.