Sevastopol students volunteered to develop a unit that is essential for the survivability of ship crews
Students of the Sevastopol Polytechnic University were tasked with making mechanisms for warships that are not produced in Russia.
Future masters of Northern State University will carry out their work at the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet as part of the import substitution program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Master's students in the "Reverse Engineering" training profile will have to design and improve a two-piston compressor, which is used in refrigeration units on ships and is not produced in Russia. The plant will provide the institute with a sample product, on the basis of which students will assemble a similar device, while improving its characteristics. Subsequently, production should become serial.
“People work and live on a warship. For the team to eat, food is needed. To prevent food from going to waste, some of it is frozen and some is refrigerated. This requires special compressors, which are not currently produced in Russia. Imported units from BITZER were previously installed on warships. Due to sanctions, we cannot purchase new units, as a result of which there is nowhere to store products on the ship,” said Pavel Florya, director of the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet.
The work is planned to be divided into stages: development of a set of design documentation for the device in accordance with ETKS for putting it into production, creation of a prototype and launching it “in metal”, launch of mass production of the mechanism. SevSU expects that the results of the master’s students’ work will be presented by spring next year.
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