SPbGASU Team is the Winner of the BIOTON Case Championship
The team of SPbGASU students "GasuEkoStroy" took second place in the BIOTON case championship, held as part of the 26th International Specialized Exhibition and Forum "Safety and Labour Protection" (BiOT-2022).
SPbGASU team: Ivan Solomatin, Elena Vystavkina, Vasilina Oreshina, Elena Smirnova (supervisor)
and Tatiana Dyleva
SPbGASU team project
The team included associate professor at the Department of technosphere safety Elena Smirnova (project supervisor), second-year master's student of the Faculty of automobile and road building Ivan Solomatin (team captain), first-year master's student of the Faculty of automobile and road building Tatiana Dyleva (graphic editor), fourth-year bachelor's students of the Faculty of automobile and road building Vasilina Oreshina (PR-manager) and Elena Vystavkina (systems analyst).
SPbGASU students participated in this case championship for the first time. They prepared a project called "Income from waste" in the nomination "Sustainable development".
“Our project aims to implement a circular economy, the concept of which is to maximize the use of resources and the possibility of reusing materials. We have developed a plan to install plasma furnaces in hospitals in large regions and centrally collect medical masks from medical facilities and shopping centers. Thanks to these solutions, it is possible to free up at least 26.5 hectares that masks now occupy at municipal solid waste landfills, as well as improve the state of the environment,” Ivan Solomatin said.
“We studied the processes of the plasma furnace and the possibility of safely burning medical masks. We worked out logistics chains so that this project could be implemented in the future,” said Vasilina Oreshina.
“As the scientific supervisor of the team, I am very pleased with the performance of the students. 29 universities participated in the case championship, and only 10 made it to the final. The guys performed brilliantly! Coped with the task on a hundred percent. The success was facilitated by the high professional training of students by the specialists of our department and a well-chosen team, all members of which were determined to succeed,” said Elena Smirnova.
According to the supervisor, the project is fully ready for implementation and can solve a number of waste processing problems. There were no such developments before. If you find an investor and reach the implementation stage, then by removing a number of waste from landfills, you can free up significant areas occupied by them, and thereby increase the environmental safety of any region of Russia.
Text: Elena Smirnova, Tatiana Petrova
Photo: Elena Smirnova