Abstract
Substations are key nodes in the power grid used to change voltage levels between higher voltage and lower voltage for power distribution. Compared with general industrial buildings, substations often have more complex systems of equipment and automatic control and relatively simple building structures. Although the Industry Foundation Class (IFC) has become the prevailing standard for Building Information Modeling (BIM) in many industrial trades, the power distribution companies in China recently seek alternative approaches for recording BIM data in order to improve sharing information across organizations, and a series of domestic industry standard, called Grid Information Modeling (GIM) standards, have been published. This study first summarizes the application of these GIM standards, and then presents the challenges of applying the GIM format in communication and collaboration with other trade in the context of City Information Modeling (CIM). Accordingly, the method of converting the GIM data to the IFC format has been developed. Finally, a case of a real design case of a substation in Zhejiang province has been studied to validate the feasibility of the data format conversion method.
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This research was supported by Research on Key Technologies for 3D design and engineering data based on new generation power system (Grant No. 5200-201956106A-0-0-00). We thank Dr. Yuanbin Song from Shanghai Jiao Tong University who provided insight comments that greatly assisted the writing of this paper.
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Jiang, X., Wu, B., Huang, J. (2022). Alternative BIM Format for Facilitating Substation 3D Design. In: Jain, L.C., Kountchev, R., Zhang, K., Kountcheva, R. (eds) Advances in Wireless Communications and Applications. ICWCA 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 307. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3486-5_16
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