Practices
The expansion of renewable energy sources increases the demand for energy storage systems due to the variability of energy production using renewable energy sources. A number of technologies are used for short-term (daily) energy storage, such as pumped storage, gravity accumulators, accumulators and flow batteries, etc. However, long-term storage of large amounts of energy is still a challenge. The use of energy storage systems with a hydrogen cycle can be one of the solutions to this problem. Energy from renewable energy sources is converted into hydrogen by electrolysis, hydrogen is stored in a special storage facility (compressed, liquefied or in metal hydrides) and, if necessary, converted into electricity in fuel cells.
Plastilin creates fundamentally new plant varieties (soya, peas, rice, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.) using genome-editing technologies that have high yields, grow in milder climates (drought, cold), are resistant to pathogens, and have the most beneficial nutritional characteristics for humans. Plastilin reduces the time to create varieties by 4 times, reduce the cost of variety creation by 2 times, and allow targeted variety creation to meet the needs of human nutrition. We have implemented a digital platform for predicting the necessary changes in the genome, trained it on our own crop genome database, and combined it with our own genome editing technology. based on our own developments, we have a ready-made solution for creating varieties with the required characteristics. We have formed a combined system for creating new varieties combining AI and genome editing: a digital platform for predicting necessary changes in the genome, which is trained on its own database of crop genomes, and with its own genome editing technology. based on our own developments, we have a ready-made solution for creating varieties with the required characteristics.
Given the current scenario of the modern world, collaboration between doctors and patients have become a necessity to promote and facilitate effective diagnosis and treatment that will even be accessible from a remote location, promoting an extension for healthcare services. Holodoctors represent an application of holographic technology poised to revolutionize healthcare delivery. In recent years, advancements in holographic projection and communication capabilities have paved the way for the development of holodoctors, offering a futuristic approach to patient care. By projecting lifelike holographic representations of healthcare professionals, holodoctors enable remote consultations, surgical guidance, medical education, and more, transcending geographical barriers and enhancing access to healthcare services. Holodoctors represent an application of holographic technology poised to revolutionize healthcare delivery. In recent years, advancements in holographic projection and communication capabilities have paved the way for the development of holodoctors, offering a futuristic approach to patient care. By projecting lifelike holographic representations of healthcare professionals, holodoctors enable remote consultations, surgical guidance, medical education, and more, transcending geographical barriers and enhancing access to healthcare services. Holodoctors represent an application of holographic technology poised to revolutionize healthcare delivery. In recent years, advancements in holographic projections and communication capabilities have paved the way for the development of holodoctors, offering a futuristic approach to patient care. By projecting life like holographic representations of healthcare professionals , holodoctors enable remote consultations, surgical guidance, medical education, and more, transcending the geographic barriers and enhancing access to healthcare services.
Africa currently faces the scourge of period poverty. Period poverty is the inability to afford and access menstrual products, sanitation and hygiene facilities and education and awareness to manage menstrual health. Some families have to make the choice of buying food or menstrual products for women and girls, leaving most women and girls without hygiene products to manage what their bodies naturally produces. The University of Stellenbosch found that 30% of young girls in South Africa are affected by period poverty. This means that 30% of girls miss school every month during their menstrual days. The solution that IPUSE Holdings has implemented is establishing Sanitary Pads Manufacturing Incubation Centre in communities where period poverty is rife. The Incubation Centre manufactures biodegradable sanitary pads that are donated to girls and women who need them. The Incubation Centre also provides training to women and youth in the manufacturing of sanitary pads, providing skills development and employment opportunities to the communities it serves. The Incubation Centre also provides access to a sector where training does not largely exist.
Problems: 1. High operating costs for performing industrial geophysical and hydrodynamical surveys (GHS). It is necessary to increase the efficiency of interaction between the customer and the contractor. Long connections between process participants lead to an increase in the cost of GHS and oil losses. 2. Low level of digitalization of GHS processes. Up to 30% of labor costs do not actually bring value. Unproductive time is associated with the need to analyze non-digitized data. There are no end-to-end processes, which leads to the need to duplicate work and the impossibility of robotizing information analysis processes. Solution: Development and implementation of an integrated digital platform for geological and technological monitoring for oil and gas fields to automate and optimize the geophysical and hydrodynamical survey
Before the implementation of ASMAR, the process of monitoring the operation of the well fund was based on the use of different software products. The implementation of the ASMAR made it possible to standardize the approach to working with information, and integration with the main company software to monitor the performance of the downhole pumping equipment and use incidental downtime to interpret the pressure build-up
Buildings, land plots and other objects have no boundaries in the airspace. And no boundaries of space means no owner. Therefore, it is impossible to allocate air routes for drones and it is impossible to collect taxes from the space. For example, let's take 1 problem - the invasion of a drone into private airspace. Now the problem is solved by a complete ban on flights in the city, but what should delivery drones or fire drones and other services do? Plus, navigation in the city suffers, especially for taxi drivers. We have a solution - the creation of a single city system of drone surveillance and registration of airspace based on a three-dimensional cadastre. We have come up with and are implementing Three-Dimensional Cadastral Registration, it is accepted by Rosreestr, supported by the Government of the Russian Federation. We create a volumetric model of airspace around the object, tie it to the coordinate system and to the boundaries on the ground, establish surveillance of the perimeter of the space using the Geopager sensor we developed. Geopager detects a drone, notifies and records the fact of penetration into airspace, and displays its path of movement. Each Sensor monitors a specific area, and together they form a city monitoring network. In addition to detecting Drones, sensors help navigate in space and build air routes for civilian drones. Geopager highlights the boundaries of airspace for which you can register ownership, which means paying additional taxes to the city budget.
Construction and inspection. Problem: Frequent inspections of construction sites are necessary, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive. Solution: Quadcopters can quickly and efficiently inspect industrial sites, check construction quality, or identify potential problems such as roof or façade damage. Environmental research. Problem: Difficulty monitoring ecosystems, especially in hard-to-reach areas. Solution: Using Shturm drones allows researchers to conduct aerial photography, track habitat changes, monitor animal populations, and explore various ecosystems with minimal impact on nature.
The current state of permafrost soils is to a large extent shaped by global climate change in the Arctic. Global warming inevitably causes quantitative and qualitative changes in cryolithozone. Combined, the higher average air temperature and man-made impacts on permafrost soils result in a cumulative effect that may undermine the stability of permafrost soils around bases and in natural and engineering disasters. To address this issue and mitigate the accident risk, in 2021 the Company’s Polar Division developed and commissioned an innovative system to monitor the condition of bases and foundations of buildings and structures located in permafrost areas. The project is run in the Norilsk Industrial District across the Company's assets and urban infrastructure facilities and relies on cutting edge automated surveillance solutions and a dedicated software – an information and diagnostics system of the Polar Division. The project is focused on using automatic equipment to keep real-time track of temperatures in permafrost soils around bases, behavior in foundations, as well as temperature and humidity levels in crawl spaces. It seeks to help prevent accidents at Nornickel’s industrial facilities and, later on, local housing infrastructure and proactively identify any hazardous defects or deviations that might result in damage to the buildings and structures or their elements, with special safety criteria developed for all monitored indicators. If any such indicator exceeds its threshold, a signal is sent that the facility needs inspection and fixing. Key figures of the system: 17 production sites, >950 facilities connected to the diagnostic system 218 of which are fully automated, >600 employees use the system, 138 strain gauges, 1,200 inclinometers, 30 accelerometers, >450 thermistor strings etc.
Unavailability of information about a potential counterparty from another BRICS country for evaluation. The difficulty of conducting joint R&D due to the unavailability of the results of these colleagues from the BRICS+ member countries. Fiscal and other barriers to conducting business in the territory and/or cooperation with partners in the BRICS+ countries, such as the lack of electronic circulation of legally significant documents (EDS). Solution: Continuous and operational data exchange between registers of legal entities, information systems of tax services, as well as between centralized data repositories of RID and R&D of the BRICS+ member countries.
There are no or poorly developed mechanisms for cooperation and exchange of knowledge and skills in the field of training personnel for the energy transition among BRICS countries. Educational programmes for training civil servants in BRICS countries often lack sectoral specialisation. There are no requirements for civil servants to have knowledge of the industry, technological processes, and technical aspects.The problems and solution did not fit in the response form and are presented in a file in the application attachment
Long period of training of a highly qualified engineer, necessity to start this training already at school. The problem is solved by using the author's educational course based on laser technologies
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