Voikin Alexander, a 15-year-old student from School No19 in Novokuibyshevsk, Samara Region, chose environmental protection as the topic of his school project. He discusses how air pollution from vehicles, factories, and industrial plants is a major problem, especially in large cities, and causes health issues like lung disease. The Novokuibyshevsk Refinery near his home town processes crude oil and produces fuels, lubricants, bitumen, coke, and petrochemicals. While it's not possible to shut down industry, Voikin believes people must develop new pollution-free technologies to protect the environment.

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Student: Voikin Alexander
Age:15
School: №19
Novokuibyshevsk, Samara Region
Teacher: Mefodieva Elena Borisovna
PROJECT
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

2. Ecological problems are becoming more and more important today. People all over the world discuss
environmental protection , but we still go on polluting air, water and soil.
Air pollution is the biggest problem of large cities and industrial areas. Cars, buses and planes are among the worst
air polluters. Factories and plants also pollute air by pouring harmful emissions into the air causing lung diseases and
doing harm to our health.

3. Novokuibyshevsk Refinery in Samara region is part of Samara group of refineries acquired by Rosneft in
2007. The plant’s crude distillation capacity is 9.6 million tones (70 mln. barrels) per year. The refinery
processes West Siberian crude oil as well as the feedstock from Rosneft’s oil fields in Samara region. The
plant’s deep conversion facilities include catalytic cracking, delayed coking, catalytic reforming, kerosene and
diesel fuel hydrotreatment units, as well as bitumen production and gas fractioning units and gasoline
blending facilities.

4. Novokuibyshevsk Refinery produces high quality fuels for all types of motor vehicles, lubricating oil
components, bitumen, coke, and petrochemicals.
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5. It is impossible to stop technological process, to close to prevent pollution, all factories and plants , but people
need to invent new waste-free technologies that will not damage the environment.