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Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute (JXEPDI) Increases Substation Design Efficiency

Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute (JXEPDI) Increases Substation Design Efficiency
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CASE STUDY Image courtesy of Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute. Project Summary Organization: POWERCHINA, Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute Solution: Utility Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure Location: Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China Project Objective: • Design and deliver the 220 kilovolt Duxiling Substation • Improve design quality and efficiency by implementing a unified, multi-disciplined, collaborative design environment • Deliver an intelligent digital substation model for construction and operations Products used: AECOsim Building Designer, Bentley i-model Composer®, Bentley Navigator, Bentley Raceway and Cable Management, Bentley Substation, GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite, MicroStation, ProjectWise, ProSteel , STAAD.Pro Fast Facts • JXEPDI implemented Bentley’s substation solution comprising integrated design, simulation, and collaboration software. • The solution enabled collaborative and concurrent design within and among disciplines. • ProjectWise® enabled all disciplines to work simultaneously and have timely access to each other’s design work. ROI • Substation design efficiency increased by approximately 30 percent. • Project quality was increased by eliminating errors and inconsistencies across disciplines. • The comprehensive digital substation model will deliver ongoing efficiencies across the lifecycle of the substation infrastructure. Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute Bentley InRoads Substation Design Efficiency (JXEPDI) Increases ® Powerful tools for the design of civil infrastructure Unified Environment for Structural, Physical, and Electrical Design Eliminates Inconsistencies and Enables Concurrent Engineering Accelerated Substation Design Enables Economic Development As an energy industry leader, the Power Construction Corporation of China (POWERCHINA) provides the full range of services from planning, survey, design, and engineering to finance, construction, installation, and operation and maintenance of hydropower, thermal power, new energy, and infrastructure projects. POWERCHINA’s subsidiary, Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute (JXEPDI), delivered the 220 kilovolt Duxiling Substation for owner-operator China State Grid Corporation to support economic development and enhance the quality of life in Jiangxi Province by improving the electricity network and power supply reliability. Using Bentley’s substation solution, which provided a unified environment for structural, physical, and electrical design, the institute was able to eliminate inconsistencies and perform concurrent engineering. As a result, the design efficiency of the CNY 81 million substation was significantly enhanced by avoiding silos of data and many errors that can occur with the use of separate products for site design, physical layout, and electrical systems design. Seeking to Improve the Substation Design Process The design institute recognized that past substation design practices had been inefficient and caused duplication of effort. Without a collaborative design process, each design discipline (site, structural, physical, and electrical) had created its own separate substation model, which led to design inconsistencies, collision problems, and rework. This workflow also had rendered the design team unable to provide a comprehensive substation model for construction. JXEPDI sought a comprehensive solution that could help accomplish substation projects more efficiently through a collaborative design process among all disciplines. The institute routinely promotes technological innovation, and communicates with both domestic and international leaders in the field to learn from their experience and adopt the best practices. Bentley’s substation solution was adopted to improve collaboration, quality and efficiency, and to facilitate the transfer of a digital substation model to construction. Integrated Substation Design Bentley’s substation solution is comprised of integrated design, simulation, and collaboration software products that enable all disciplines to accelerate design, improve constructability, and reduce the operating costs of electric substations. The solution components implemented by the design institute included Bentley® Substation™, GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite, Bentley® Raceway and Cable Management™, Bentley® ProSteel™, STAAD.Pro®, and AECOsim Building Designer. • Bentley Substation, the only integrated software product for intelligent electrical and physical substation design, supported the creation of an intelligent substation model. The designers were able to develop a 3D physical layout with wiring and sag modeling to check clearance and spacing. From the comprehensive 3D physical model, 2D schematics and 2D construction drawings were generated, along with bills of material and 3D renderings for review by the owner. • GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite, proven civil engineering and road design software for designing and sustaining infrastructure, enabled the generation of the digital terrain model using topographic data from a site survey. The software supported the design of roads, and the calculation of cut-and-fill quantities. The complete site model was exported for use by the structural and physical design disciplines. • The design institute used Bentley Raceway and Cable Management to execute efficient layout, routing, and material quantities for raceways, cable trays, conduits, and cables. • ProSteel was used for the structural design of truss work, gantries, and other support structures for electrical equipment, conductors, and cables as well as the structural design of control and switch house buildings located on site. • The design institute used STAAD.Pro, which integrated seamlessly with ProSteel, for advanced analysis and design of support structures.

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“Bentley Substation provides a consolidated platform for electric substation design that enables greater collaboration within and across the physical and electrical design disciplines.” — Chenhong Liu, China Power Construction Corporation, Jiangxi Electric Power Design Institute Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Office Listings www.bentley.com/contact • Starting with the structural models developed in ProSteel for consistency, the design institute used AECOsim Building Designer to construct a...

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