All six developments of the scientists of Mining University, presented at the international HI TECH exhibition, were awarded various prizes of "The Best Innovative Project of the Year" contest. According to the expert council, this was the result of “very strong scientific and technical solutions, which have already gained commercial distribution in the Russian and foreign markets.”
The oldest high-tech exhibition in Russia, HI-TECH has been held in St. Petersburg since 1996. The main goal of the exhibition is to contribute to the effective cooperation between the scientists and the potential investors. This year’s exposition is devoted to such topics as additive technologies, bioengineering, nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, industrial robotics, and some others.
The greatest interest among the innovations presented by Mining University was the development of "By-product production of strategically important rare-earth metals from the products of apatite production.” It was awarded a special prize in the category of the “Best Innovative Project in the Field of New Materials and Chemicals.”
“This is a fundamentally new technology that makes it possible not only to increase the depth of apatite raw material processing but also to extract individual compounds of rare-earth metals from it as well. Its introduction into production will contribute to obtaining additional profits as part of the sustainable development of the enterprise, which implies, among other things, striving for waste-free technologies,” said Olga Cheremisina, the project author (the scientific group also includes Vasily Sergeyev, Anastasia Vilenskaya, Alexander Fedorov, Daria Alferova).
Four more developments were awarded gold medals. In particular, “The device for measuring the exergy of the working environment” (authors: Vladimir Lebedev and Ekaterina Yushkova); “Personal head and ear protectors with monitoring and alarm functions” (authors: Andrey Nikulin, Dmitry Ikonnikov, Ilya Dolzhikov); “Resource-saving reactor for synthesis gas production” (authors: Ilya Beloglazov, Sergey Savchenkov, Ruslan Malygin, Kirill Bekenev) and “Formation of diffusion metal coatings from liquid metal melts on steel products” (authors: Alexey Sivenkov, Andrey Mikhailov, Darina Konchus, Evgeny Pryakhin).
Development “Lightweight concrete based on sewage sludge incineration ash” (authors: Vera Matveyeva, Yuri Smirnov, Ivan Sverchkov, Denis Suchkov) won the silver medal.
