TOMSK, Jan 9 – RIA Tomsk, Evgenia Plankina. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) took the third place among Russian universities in world ecological ranking GreenMetric World Universities Ranking, the press service of the university reports on Monday.
It is specified that the ecological ranking of higher education institutions of the world is published by University of Indonesia since 2010. The initiative of its developers is directed to drawing attention of the academic public to the solution of environmental problems.
"In the general ranking Tomsk Polytechnic University took the 165th place among 516 universities from 74 countries of the world. Among Russian universities included in ranking, TPU took the third position", – is said in the message.
It is specified that the ranking has six main criteria. These are indicators of consumption and economy of energy, rational use of water resources, storages and processings of waste, uses of environmentally friendly vehicles, the area of green plantings in the territory of a campus is estimated. Also indicators of educational and scientific activities for this direction are considered.
It is noted that the subject of a resource efficiency is priority for the university, by 2020 it intends to become the network center of superiority in the field of resource-efficient technologies. Among TPU projects – there are receiving high-octane Euro-4 and Euro-5 gasolines, additives for cars reducing toxicity of exhaust gases. Also TPU scientists create water treatment complexes for sewage treatment.It is added that in TPU the strategic academic units (SAU) "Ecoenergetics" and "Hardly removable natural resources" for development of eco-friendly technologies of gasification and studying of nonconventional resources of oil and gas
are created. In 2015 the university was awarded the Ministry of Education and Science as one of most "thrifty" in the Russian Federation, for equipment by the automated systems of heatconsumption of educational buildings and dormitories.