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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
A strategic session on interaction with the State Corporation Rosatom was held at the Institute of Power Engineering of SPbPU. Its participants — representatives of the university, scientific institutions and industrial enterprises — discussed promising areas in power engineering, mechanical engineering and digital technologies.
Acting Vice-Rector for Prospective Projects of SPbPU Maria Vrublevskaya gave a welcoming speech. She spoke about the successful model of interaction between the university and industrial partners, which allows training unique personnel and creating developments necessary for the technological sovereignty of the country.
Serious, large-scale tasks now really require a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach, which our university can provide, – says Maria Vrublevskaya. – The Polytechnic University has many areas, opportunities, a solid material base, equipment. We cooperate with a huge number of research institutes and departments, and also maintain contacts with industry. We know where to get resources, so the main thing for us is trust and tasks from the industry, for which we are ready to assemble teams and competencies, and solve interesting cases.
Director of the Department for Support of New Businesses of Rosatom State Corporation Dmitry Baidarov expressed hope that the results of the strategic session will be able to present specific tasks and ways to solve them for both parties.
Rosatom is a geographically distributed company that requires a large personnel reserve both in cities of federal significance and in other regions of the country, – noted Dmitry Baydarov. – Our goal is not only to hire graduates of Rosatom’s flagship universities, but also to ensure that those specialists come to us who want and can realize themselves with us. Another area that is interesting and necessary for Rosatom: we simply must have our own technologies that ensure our energy and resource security and technological sovereignty. This is required to solve the problems set before the nuclear industry.
Director of the Institute of Power Engineering Viktor Barskov introduced the guests to the work of the departments, the implemented projects of the Priority 2030 program, and educational solutions. It is planned to create design bureaus, new educational products, and expand the laboratory and technical base of the institute. All activities are closely related to the needs of the industry: the university develops unique solutions due to its flexibility and multidisciplinary nature.
The section “Digital Solutions in Energy and Engineering” featured reports from representatives of leading energy and engineering companies JSC TVEL, JSC Consyst-OS and JSC NPO KIS. Modern technologies for improving the efficiency of energy equipment and promising areas of IT in nuclear energy were discussed.
At the section “Reliability and durability of equipment”, representatives of the companies “AEM-technologies” and “OKBM Afrikantov” presented reports on extending the service life of unique designs, as well as on training engineering personnel for the implementation of high-tech projects.
The section “Nuclear Medicine” was devoted to the possibilities of cooperation between SPbPU and the V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute in the field of scientific and technological developments for medical applications of nuclear technologies.
Participants of the section “Reliability and Durability. Power Engineering” discussed scientific and technological solutions for upgrading equipment and increasing its reliability with the participation of specialists from JSC NPO CNIITMASH and JSC Atomenergomash. During the discussion, several areas of interest to representatives of both Polytechnic University and Rosatom were identified: joint work on standards, additive technologies, and the development of domestic software. In the educational area, participants discussed joint laboratories, basic departments, and the Digital Engineering PISH. The moderator of the section, Director of the Higher School of Power Engineering Alena Aleshina, summing up the results, emphasized that the leitmotif of the meeting was the issue of personnel: training young specialists, developing the infrastructure for their training, and additional education to improve their qualifications.
Participants in the “Electric Power Industry” section, moderated by the Director of the Higher School of Nuclear and Thermal Power Engineering Alexander Kalyutik, highlighted several topics related to digitalization in the energy sector: digital technologies and digital modeling, their use in the design, operation and optimization of energy facilities, and the integration of digital models into existing solutions of Rosatom State Corporation.
Associate Professor of the Higher School of Atomic Energy and Technical Establishment Irina Anikin summarized the results of the section, noting the existing problems in her report and proposing their solutions. For example, the insufficient competence of operating personnel in the field of digital technologies can be improved with the help of training simulators, and the low awareness of students and teachers about the software products of the Rosatom State Corporation – by introducing them into the educational process.
Participants in the section “Electrical Equipment. Testing and Engineering” moderated by Professor of the Higher School of High-Voltage Power Engineering Vasily Titkov highlighted several topics in communication with industrial partners: adaptation of educational programs to the goals and objectives of Rosatom State Corporation enterprises and import substitution of power electrical equipment and software.
According to the participants, the solution to the problem of the gap between the results of the university’s research and the lack of effective mechanisms for their commercialization could be the organization of an application campaign to search for and select ideas and projects for IE and their subsequent examination at the Institute for Technology Transfer of JSC Rosatom RDS, which will certainly increase the efficiency of technology transfer and developments.
Understanding the demands of the industry helps to adjust the direction of work in the educational and scientific spheres, – Director of the Institute of Energy Viktor Barskov is sure. – The development of innovative solutions is possible only with constant dialogue, which was proven by today’s event. The solutions presented in various sections today can be implemented tomorrow, since such a pace is set by the constantly developing industry in the era of digitalization.
Read more about the session aton the website of the Institute of Energy.
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