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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
On the third day of the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum, a meeting of the Scientific and Educational Interuniversity Council of PJSC Gazprom was held with the participation of the heads of the corporation and its partner universities. The Polytechnic University was represented by the Rector of SPbPU, Chairman of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Rudskoy, Vice-Rector for Research Yury Fomin, Vice-Rector for Educational Activities Lyudmila Pankova, Vice-Rector for Continuing and Pre-University Education Dmitry Tikhonov, Director of the Scientific and Educational Center for Information Technology and Business Analysis of Gazprom Neft Irina Rudskaya, and Scientific Secretary Dmitry Karpov.
Opening the discussion, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of PJSC Gazprom Sergey Khomyakov named the main areas of joint activities with universities: education of the younger generation, professional orientation and training, training of qualified personnel and scientific research work.
At the meeting, the rector of SPbPU, chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Rudskoy made a report. He recalled that in 2024, important legislative regulations were signed at the federal level regulating strategic guidelines, national goals and priority areas of scientific and technological development of Russia, and noted that almost every such document speaks of close interaction between the university and academic communities with industrial partners.
The cooperation between Polytechnic University and Gazprom is developing in many areas — from educational (starting with work with schoolchildren) to scientific and technological. Of the significant results, Andrey Rudskoy highlighted several joint events this year: the Gazprom student Olympiad, a job fair and a tournament on flexible skills; modernization of the laboratory and educational base through financing from PJSC Gazprom.
In the scientific and technological sphere, the rector of the Polytechnic University noted the rapid development of the field of additive printing with metals at the university and the production of high-quality products for Gazprom using this method, the development of fundamentally new technological solutions for laser cladding, heat treatment, defect detection methods, the assembly of a mobile laser cladding complex by specialists from the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport, and projects of the Advanced Engineering School “Digital Engineering” in the areas of the fuel and energy complex.
In conclusion, Andrey Rudskoy made several proposals to strengthen cooperation between Polytechnic University and Gazprom.
“Undoubtedly, the existing forms of interaction between the Polytechnic University and PJSC Gazprom are effective, but they need to be expanded and scaled up,” the Rector of SPbPU believes. “One of the forms of integrating science and production could be the creation of research and production associations (RPAs), whose participants could be universities and high-tech industrial companies. In the USSR, RPAs demonstrated high efficiency in consolidating the resources of scientific and industrial organizations. Modern RPAs will be able to receive federal support. Following his trip to the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, the President of Russia instructed the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, as well as the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation to develop mechanisms to support RPAs. In the near future, it is planned to launch a federal pilot project to create RPAs, and the Polytechnic University is ready to join this experiment. We invite you to join the joint work to create RPAs for the further development of cooperation for the benefit of science and industry in our country.”
Andrey Rudskoy also proposed creating an association of Gazprom’s flagship universities and establishing a joint journal.
It is important that the advanced experience and knowledge that have accumulated over all this time in our flagship universities are recorded and made publicly available, Andrey Rudskoy emphasized. He asked Alexey Miller to become the editor-in-chief of the journal.
Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev and Chairman of the Management Committee of PAO Gazprom Alexey Miller took time out of their schedule to attend the meeting of the Interuniversity Council and thank its participants for their cooperation.
“Today, at this forum, higher education has the opportunity to see with its own eyes the results of our common work,” Alexey Miller addressed the audience. “The first forum took place eight years ago, we set priorities, and now every year we see fundamentally new technological developments, new equipment, at the stands, above the world level.”
At the council meeting, speaking about the interaction of the Polytechnic University and Gazprom in the field of higher education, Andrey Rudskoy cited as an example two educational systems developed this year based on VR technologies. One of them was presented at the SPbPU stand and aroused genuine interest among the forum guests, especially among young people. One of the teenagers who visited the stand even thought: Maybe I should go to the Polytechnic University?
The “Maintenance and Repair of Piston Compressor and Auxiliary Equipment for Underground Gas Storage Systems” complex is a virtual model of the real Nevskaya station and is designed to study the main actions during maintenance and operation of compressor equipment used at underground gas storage facilities. This virtual training complex is a joint effort of two departments of the Polytechnic University. The compressor engineering sector of the Higher School of Power Engineering of the Institute of Power Engineering is responsible for the technical side and implementation in the educational process, and the software implementation is performed by the Laboratory of Streaming Data Processing.
“To train students in compressor and related specialties, practical classes at compressor stations are necessary. But it is difficult to get to these facilities, or students cannot do anything with their hands. Our joint work consists of preparing a scenario and technical actions, and programmers create a virtual gas-pumping unit with all the necessary control elements, on which students can practice the necessary actions according to the scenarios of the actions of a gas-pumping unit operator and a shift engineer,” said Vasily Semenovsky, associate professor at the Higher School of Power Engineering. “The simulator has been introduced into the educational process of bachelors and masters, and if necessary, we also work with this virtual model in additional education courses.
According to Vasily Semenovsky, another virtual model is 90 percent ready: an automatic gas-filling compressor station for refueling passenger and freight vehicles with methane.
This year, Polytechnic University and the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences presented a joint stand at the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum. Among the developments of the RAS institutes: Voron and Strizh unmanned aerial vehicles of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center (FRC RAS), the small-sized quadrupole mass spectrometer MS7-200 for analyzing the composition of gas mixtures at atmospheric pressure of the Institute of Analytical Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
The Voron model is a multi-base UAV for solving a wide range of tasks. The most popular applications are: real-time aerial monitoring, signal retransmission, delivery of small-sized cargo, terrain mapping, search and rescue operations, aerial photography and aerial video filming.
The Strizh UAV can perform aerial monitoring in real time, deliver small-sized cargo, participate in search and rescue operations, and conduct aerial photography and aerial video filming.
Traditionally, the SPbPU History Museum also takes part in the exhibition. This year, the museum staff introduces the guests of the stand to the Polytechnic gas plant, which produced lighting gas for laboratories. Combustible gas was obtained by dry distillation of coal at a temperature of 1000 °C.
Every day, the institute consumed over 900 cubic meters of gas: the chemical laboratory – 425 m³, metallurgical – 283 m³, the rest – 198 m³.
Light gas prepared at the plant was collected in a gas holder (gas storage) before entering the gas network, where it was under pressure. The gas holder was designed on the principle of a caisson – an engineering structure for forming an empty chamber under water.
With the advent of main gas pipelines, the work of the institute’s gas plant became irrelevant. In the 1960s, a laboratory building appeared on the site of the gas plant. The gas holder was built into the building. The round projections in the laboratory building can still be seen today.
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