
The speed of scientific and technological progress and the disappearance of certain activities associated with the penetration of automation into all areas of production and management processes are factors of possible growth for enterprises of the future. Digital integration, which integrates scientific directions, people, processes, users and data, will create the conditions for scientific and technological advances and breakthroughs, enabling scientific and economic shifts in related industries and, above all, in the global mineral market. In this regard, in 2018, for the purpose of training, research and development in the field of digital technologies for the enterprises of mineral and fuel and energy complexes, the "Educational Center of Digital Technologies" was established at the Mining University.
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Directions of scientific research

Study of efficient development and functioning of energy systems on new technological basis, energy saving principles, modern electrical engineering, RES

Theory and methodology of information support of subsoil use objects

Creation of a system of continuous training and professional development aimed at forming professional digital competences of specialists required to ensure the innovative development of the fuel and energy complex

Energy saving and energy efficiency improvement

Transition to advanced digital, intelligent production technologies, robotic systems at the enterprises
This direction implies the consideration of intellectual technologies of electric power systems management, including electric power transmission, electric power demand management, digital twins of electric power facilities, digital information models of electrical engineering systems.
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Within the framework of this direction, new methods of monitoring and management based on digital and information technologies are being developed, and information systems are being created to solve mining industry problems.
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This direction is aimed at the development and popularisation of engineering education, improvement of digital competencies of employees and students, as well as implementation of additional professional education programmes for representatives of fuel and energy complex companies.
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This direction implies research and substantiation of complex indicators of efficiency of energy generation, transport and consumption when supplied from traditional and renewable energy sources, taking into account the impact of global challenges and variation of external factors.
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Within the framework of this direction, research is carried out aimed at improving the efficiency of equipment and technological processes of mining, processing and transporting minerals.
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Scientific publications

Augmented reality system and maintenance of oil pumps
Keywords:Augmented reality | Digitalisation | Maintenance | Oil pump
Date of publication: 2020-08-01
Journal: International Journal of Engineering, Transactions B: Applications
Authors: Koteleva, N, Buslaev, G, Valnev, V, Kunshin, A.
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Qualification of employees who operate technological processes directly influences the safety of production. However, the employees’’ qualification cannot completely exclude human factor. Today, there are many technologies that can minimize or eliminate human factor impact on production safety ensuring. The augmented reality technology is an example of this technology. Nowadays, the augmented reality technologies and industrial technologies integration process moves to a new level of development. These technologies have huge experience, which has been accumulated in a long period of time. -This new level turns available by this experience combination and integration; it brings additional profit to the enterprise and can be a basis for completely new technologies. This paper shows an example of combination of augmented reality technology and oil pumps maintenance. For researching of efficiency of augmented reality system for oil pump maintenance, the laboratory unit with Grundfos vertical electric centrifugal pump (CR15-4 A-FGJ-AE-HQQE) was used. The laboratory unit is a physical model of one of the continuous oil processes. The oil pump of this laboratory unit is object of this research. The algorithm of servicing of oil pump was developed. The test of system and algorithms were carried out with four groups of people: the first one had only instructions to use on hand, the second one only used the internal recommendations of the system, the third one used only the help of an expert, and the fourth used internal recommendations and, if necessary, contacted the expert. The results show the efficiency and actuality of augmented reality technology for maintenance of industrial equipment, especially for the equipment operated in remote Arctic conditions.

Public-private partnership as a tool of sustainable development in the oil-refining sector: Russian case
Keywords:Energy and resources policy | Investments | Oil-refining sector | Public policy | Public-pri-vate partnership (PPP) | Russia | Sustainable development | Synergetic effect
Date of publication: 2021-01-01
Journal: Sustainability (Switzerland)
Authors: Filatova, I, Nikolaichuk, L, Zakaev, D, Ilin, I.
ISSN:20711050
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Dramatic changes in the global energy market due to COVID-19 pandemic, the OPEC+ agreement, and increasing rates of green energy share in the world community have brought nega-tive effects on the oil sector. In the long term, oil will reduce its importance as an energy resource, but for many years, it will continue to play a significant role in the world of energy. The oil industry has huge potential in terms of technical expertise, management, and financial resources to reduce its greenhouse emissions and ensuring an affordable availability of predictable energy. However, nowadays this sector has lost investing attractiveness. It is an interdisciplinary problem with a so-lution at the intersection of different stakeholders’ interests. The article is a review one and devoted to the issue of the implementation a public-private partnership (PPP) as a key tool that allows the use of the state and the business’ available resources to achieve the sector’s sustainable development and investment attractiveness. Research and analysis of PPP were based on foreign and domestic literature, using classification and generalization methods, retrospective and critical analysis. This paper contains identified groups of drivers, constraints, and recommendations for further successful PPP implementation in the Russian case.
Evaluation of bulk material behavior control method in technological units using dem. Part 1
Keywords:Bulk materials | Classification of motion modes | DEM-modeling | Neural networks | Pelletizing drums
Date of publication: 2020-01-01
Journal: CIS Iron and Steel Review
Authors: Boikov, A.V, Savelyev, R.V, Payor, V.A, Erokhina, O.O.
ISSN:24141089
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Nowadays pelletizing drums are widely used in the steel industry. These units are characterized by high endurance and low cost of maintenance. However, use and control of these units in the process of coarsening have a number of issues. For most of the cases pelletizing drums are “black box” and control accuracy can not be estimated exactly. It is explained by low existing theoretical basis of this production process. Particularly it is tied up with the variability of the bulk materials (charges) parameters supplied to the unit. Overcome of this issues can be reached with development of intelligent control systems for drum pelletizing machines. Main requirement for such systems is possibility to level or consider the effect of charges properties variability in control. However, it is necessary to study the behavior of bulk materials inside the units. Visual assessment of pelletization does not allow to evaluate the ongoing physical processes. Development of mathematical and numerical models can help studying the process and take a lot of parameters into account including charges properties and even interaction with water. But the adequacy of the resulting models also has to be clarified using physical devices to record or capture bulk materials behavior inside the units. This research proposes a DEM simulation test of the concept for bulk material behavior control through the recognition of the mixture movement fragments using special capsules. This part is dedicated to the simulation model set up and extracting the particles trajectories for further processing.
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The Committee for the Fuel and Energy Complex of the Leningrad Region expresses its gratitude to you for your support in holding the Festival and organising an informative exposition of the enterprise aimed at attracting the young generation to the fuel and energy complex profession.
Thanks to your efforts, we will be able to further educate young people full of strength and aspirations for knowledge and creativity in the field of energy saving.
We hope for further fruitful co-operation in the field of energy saving.
Thanks to your efforts, we will be able to further educate young people full of strength and aspirations for knowledge and creativity in the field of energy saving.
We hope for further fruitful co-operation in the field of energy saving.
On behalf of the Ministry of Energy of Russia, we would like to express our gratitude to the WeWatt team of young researchers for the great and necessary work for the industry, done under your leadership on a proactive and pro bono basis.
The results of this study will serve as a basis for further work in this area and will be useful to coal companies in carrying out digital transformation of production facilities, contributing to the effective and successful achievement of the goal.
The results of this study will serve as a basis for further work in this area and will be useful to coal companies in carrying out digital transformation of production facilities, contributing to the effective and successful achievement of the goal.
Institute for Problems of Integrated Subsoil Development, Dmitry Klebanov
Leonid Zhukov, Director of SITECH Division of Zeppelin Rusland Ltd.
Committee for Fuel and Energy Complex, Chairman of the Committee Y.V. Andreev
Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation


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