St. Petersburg Polytechnic University hosted the finals of the Peter the Great Case Championship, in which 24 teams representing various institutions of higher education of the city on the Neva took part. First place in one of its three streams - the energy stream - was taken by the Deep Energy team of Mining University.
As pointed out by the jury of experts, the representatives of the oldest technical school in Russia proposed the most rational strategy for decarbonization of the Nissan plant until 2050. It was not standard and was not built solely on the introduction of greenhouse gas sequestration technologies, as some other assemblies have.
“Proposals to use solar panels or wind turbines we rejected almost immediately because of the territorial location of the plant. Instead, we recommended using a methane-hydrogen mixture as fuel for the gas-fired units. An important part of the solution was the introduction of smart technologies for metering emissions, which will reduce emissions through a more efficient organization of the production process. By 2030 it can be reduced by 28%,” said Deep Energy captain Daniil Rasputin.
The winners thanked the organizers of the case championship and the staff of the Training and Research Center of Digital Technologies of Mining University. The consultations of the latter, as the guys noted, helped to make the project more realistic, which, in the end, allowed them to win.
“Our opponents were of different levels, including experienced trained teams! We are very happy that we were able to defend the honour of Mining University in this struggle and take the trophy,” Daniel added.
In addition to him, Deep Energy consisted of Alexey Chernov (Faculty of Energy), Anastasia Koshenkova (Faculty of Mining), and Elizaveta Mokhova (Department of Economics). Each of them was responsible for their part of the solution, but, as the young people emphasized, “only in collective discussion, thanks to interdisciplinary communication, did the idea make sense.”