The Higher School of Technology and Energy of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design celebrated its 95th anniversary. Today it is a leading educational and scientific center in the field of pulp and paper industry and energy with a long history. The institution has received worldwide recognition for the creation and implementation of fundamentally new technological and design solutions both in our country and abroad.
The Higher School of Technology and Energy of Ƶ includes 28 departments, educational, scientific, financial, administrative and economic units that successfully train qualified specialists and scientific personnel for economic sectors. Every year, more than 4,500 students of all forms of education study at the HSE in bachelor's, master's, and postgraduate educational programs.
At the gala concert, the guests were shown a film about the history of the St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Energy and summed up the results of their activities over the past five years.
"For 95 years, the Higher School of Technology and Energy has become a major research cluster. Throughout its history, it has gone through various stages of formation and the path from an industrial institute to a significant scientific and educational core of our university. Today, HSE graduates are solving applied tasks of import substitution, reducing the environmental impact on the environment, and introducing digital technologies into production cycles. Also here, within the framework of the Priority 2030 program, a large-scale strategic technological project "Technology of biodegradable packaging materials in the pulp and paper industry" is being implemented. I would like to thank the faculty and staff of the Higher School of Technology and Energy for their dedication and education of talented young people. I wish that the next five years before the centenary will be filled with new projects, grants and student victories."
Rector of Ƶ Alexey Demidov
The guests of the event visited the exhibition "Sharing my beautiful" dedicated to the anniversary. The staff, teachers and their family members presented their creative works in various techniques and genres. Creative teams of the university presented festive performances to the audience. The best employees of the Higher School were awarded with memorable awards. The participants of the event also saw the scientific potential of the Laboratory School and learned about the ongoing research. For example, in the laboratory of automated electric drive, employees talked about the use of controllers in process control systems. In the laboratory of physico-mechanical testing of pulp and paper products, they demonstrated how to determine the brightness, whiteness, color, fluorescence and opacity of paper in accordance with international standards.
At the forefront of the pulp and paper industry.
The university was founded in 1931 during the period of accelerated industrialization. Created on the basis of a number of diverse educational institutions, it was named the All-Union Educational Complex of Industrial Cooperation. Molotov University, and in 1938 it was renamed the Leningrad Institute of Technology. Molotov. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the country needed personnel in the specialty of the pulp and paper industry, so the university is beginning to develop as a specialized industry institution with appropriate training. In 1959, it was transformed into the Leningrad Technological Institute of the Pulp and Paper Industry (LTI CBP). At the same time, due to the shortage of power engineers, a thermal power engineering faculty was formed in the structure of the university. Two major independent areas are still reflected in the modern name of the Higher School.
In 1981, the Institute was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 1986 it was confirmed as the country's leading branch higher education institution. This became an official recognition of his role as the main forge of engineering personnel for the Central Bank of the USSR. At that time, deep chemical processing of wood became the main scientific direction. Among the achievements that gained worldwide recognition at that time were the technology of oxygen-free (chlorine-free) bleaching of cellulose, currently used by all CBP enterprises in the world.; technological and design solutions for a fundamentally new method of paper production by aerodynamic molding, which has no global analogues; technology of synthetic types of paper and new composite materials used, including in space exploration; closed-loop wasteless water management system at the Selenginsky Pulp and Paper Mill, for the development of which the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology was awarded; developments in the field of paper sizing include the use of alkyl ketene dimers, which formed the basis for the production of many types of paper and cardboard (scientific school of Professor N. P. Perekalsky); research in the field of sulfite cellulose production, which allowed the creation of scientific foundations for improving this key technological process (scientific school of Professor Yu. G. Butko); production of decorative bookbinding paper—based materials - creating a new direction in the country; the first pilot plant, which allowed the technology to be implemented at the Kaliningrad Pulp and Paper Mill (developed by Professor F. B. Klupt). International and industry—specific technologies include technologies for cooking cellulose from non-wood raw materials - cane for Astrakhan Pulp and Paper Mill and Romania, straw for China, alpha grass for Sudan and Vietnam, as well as oxygen cooking and oxidation of cooking solution to reduce toxic emissions. The institute's scientists also made important discoveries in gradient optics. The developments of the USSR State Prize winner in the field of science and technology, Professor G. O. Karapetyan of the Leningrad Institute of Technology of the Pulp and Paper Industry, commissioned by the Ministry of Defense, are still used in military and civilian equipment (laser devices, multiplying technology, endoscopes, binoculars, gradient glasses).
Since 1979, the LTI CBP has become the basic organization of the Scientific Council on the Problem of Integrated Use and Reproduction of Forest Resources of the Interdepartmental Coordinating Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, and in 1986 it became the leading branch higher educational institution in the country.
Unification and new horizons.
In 1993, the Institute received the status of a university — St. Petersburg State Technological University of Plant Polymers (SPbGTURP), was the basic organization and coordinator of all work on the federal target scientific and technical program "Integrated use of wood raw materials", Chairman of the Scientific Council — Professor O. A. Terentyev. The university met university requirements: the number of specialties tripled, staff training became comprehensive, and teaching of general humanitarian subjects expanded. The results of the development of the teams of scientists of St. Petersburg State University were demonstrated at the exhibition "Innovative Activities of Universities" in the Government House of the Russian Federation, and were highly appreciated by the Chairman of the Government. The University has received 26 diplomas from major international exhibitions, including the Leipzig Trade Fair and the National Exhibition in Berlin. The authors of the developments received 10 gold, 32 silver, and 59 bronze medals from the VDNH of the USSR. The intellectual property of the university at that time amounted to 1,650 patents and copyright certificates.
2016 marked the stage of unification with the University of Technology and Design. The new name was St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design. The integration of the two universities is connected with the desire to create a single competitive educational and research center of international level.
Higher School of Technology and Energy now.
The modern Higher School of Technology and Energy of Ƶ is a knowledge—intensive cluster that solves current industrial problems, engages in import substitution and the introduction of digital technologies. A joint project with Ilim Group of Companies called Larch is being implemented here with a total funding of over 300 million rubles. The innovativeness of the developed technologies is confirmed by 19 patents of the Russian Federation. Thanks to the project, HSE has modern scientific laboratories that are actively involved in the educational process. The Higher School of Technology and Energy is also implementing a program in the field of deep chemical processing of wood at Russian agricultural processing plants (modification of cooking processes, production of modified types of cellulosic materials for plastic production, improvement of paper and cardboard production technology, production of materials and new products from recycled materials during wood processing); a program in the field of energy-saving heat technologies and environmental protection environment, including protection of water resources from the effects of economic activities of enterprises.
Here, within the framework of the federal program "Priority 2030", technologies have been developed for the import substitution of instrumentation and control equipment, the creation of biodegradable packaging materials and biofuel briquettes, as well as the production of fluffed pulp for sanitary products. The University conducts fundamental research on the resource-saving technology of a test liner with a white cover layer, which was developed in joint international grants from Ƶ and BSTU (Republic of Belarus) to develop methods for analyzing composite materials.
By the way, it was the scientists of the Higher School of Technology and Energy at SPbSUTD who created a new technology for producing bleached cellulose for paper in 2022, when Finland stopped supplying the chemical reagent used to produce bleached cellulose. They did not use imported chemicals for bleaching cellulose, which made the product more environmentally friendly and easier to recycle. The new eco-paper was used as a blank for the Unified State Exam and the Main State Exam. Additionally, its introduction to the market led to changes in government standards and additions to the GOST for paper for office equipment. At that time, the functioning of the Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill, the region's most important system-forming enterprise, was under threat, and paper prices increased fivefold. However, the PPM did not stop operating. In a short period of time, the mill switched to producing a completely new eco-friendly beige-colored paper.