The stay in Novocherkassk of the participants of the meeting of the working subgroup of the State Council of the Russian Federation "Regulatory regulation of industry and improvement of the procurement system" continued with a visit to the South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) named after M.I. Platov. Here, in the walls of the first university of the south of Russia, the distinguished guests were presented with the latest revolutionary developments of Novocherkassk scientists.

The delegation of participants of the meeting of the working subgroup of the State Council was headed by its head, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Gutenev; it also included First Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Grigory Vladimirovich Trubnikov and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Georgy Vladimirovich Kalamanov.

Yuri Ivanovich Razorenov, Acting Rector of the YURSPU (NPI), conducted a rich and interesting excursion that familiarized the delegates with the latest scientific achievements of the Polytechnic University.

The excursion program started in the Covered courtyard of the university, where distinguished guests were able to get acquainted with the advanced developments of Novocherkassk polytechnics in the field of water treatment, medicine and underground mining. The innovative developments aroused great interest among the delegation and received the most positive assessment – especially the delegates were interested in the electroimpedance tomograph, which is, without exaggeration, a new word in the important medical task of monitoring and evaluating the ventilation function of the lungs. Another innovative invention of polytechnics that attracted attention was the microtunnel-boring complex, which is being created by specialists of the Research Institute of Electromechanics of YURSPU (NPI) together with the enterprise "Gidrostroy" (Novoshakhtinsk). This equipment allows you to perform a complex of works underground for laying tunnels, communications of various degrees of length, with high accuracy and safety of work. At the same time, the work will be carried out in conditions of dense urban development, without opening the surface and disturbing the landscape.

The visit of the distinguished guests continued at the Faculty of Technology, within the walls of the Laboratory of Gas-oil Chemistry and Technology of Organic substances, where they got acquainted with the promising work of young scientists and plans to create a state-of-the-art laboratory on the basis of the faculty that meets international standards.

The staff of the Research Institute "Nanotechnologies and New Materials" told about the achievements in pilot tests of obtaining synthetic diesel fuel from associated petroleum gas. Due to the intensive development of the Arctic, the issue of providing consumers with high-quality low-setting diesel fuel is particularly acute for Russia. The demand for winter and Arctic diesel fuel in Russia is constantly growing, at the same time its production volumes have been realized by less than half. The output of this type of fuel should be at least 30% of the total production of diesel fuel, but the actual volume of its production does not exceed 17%. Tests conducted at the Research Institute "NTNM" have shown the fundamental possibility of creating Arctic fuel technology from associated petroleum gases.

At the scientific and technical center "Technology of Composites", representatives of the delegation listened to a detailed report on the methods of winding and laying - the two most promising ways of creating products from composite materials – and positively noted the uniqueness of the work of the STC, where winding and laying machines are made only from domestic materials and for the Russian customer; such innovative technologies have no analogues in the country and solve the issues of import substitution. Successful innovations allowed NPI scientists to become authors of promising developments for Russian Helicopters JSC.

The work of young scientists of the NPI devoted to the creation of a hydrogen fuel cell power plant for quadrocopters aroused great interest. A team of talented specialists led by Nina Vladimirovna Smirnova, Professor of the Department of Chemical Technologies, triumphantly presented their development at the first technological competition of the National Technological Initiative "First Element. Air", showing one of the best results at the final stage of the event.

- Demonstration of our achievements at the contest "The first element. Air" was a very important step for all of us, so the preparation for it was started a year and a half ago," said Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Technologies Alexandra Borisovna Kuriganova. – Participation in the creation of an innovative power plant was a very important step for me, as a researcher, because my PhD was also devoted to the development of technology for producing a catalyst for a fuel cell, which was finally successfully applied in a real device that showed equally successful work.

Having examined the quadcopter, which is successfully functioning with the use of an innovative power plant of Novocherkassk scientists, the distinguished guests expressed the hope that further work in this, without exaggeration, revolutionary direction will be fruitfully continued.

A very pleasant impression during the tour was made by the renovated and filigree restoration of the First Mathematical and First Chemical Auditorium – and, of course, the new Concert Hall of the NPI delighted with its beauty and compliance with the most modern standards. The delegation of the working subgroup of the State Council of the Russian Federation was pleased with their creativity by talented artists of the Cossack Choir of the Polytechnic University.

- I am very pleased to see by the example of Novocherkassk Polytechnic that leading Russian universities are involved in the process of fruitful and successful interaction of education, science and industry, - summed up the visit to Novocherkassk, First Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Grigory Vladimirovich Trubnikov. – Today I was able to make sure that there are many research centers working on the territory of this glorious university, where talented specialists successfully solve the most important innovative tasks for our country.