Beräkningsverktyg för plattformar till seriekompenseringsanläggningar
ABB is one of the world?s leading engineering companies in power and automation technologiesand their solutions improve performance while lowering environmental impacts for energycompanies and industries. ABB FACTS designs equipment and plants for series and phasecompensation.This thesis has been performed at ABB FACTS on the Mechanical Design (DM) department inVästerås, Sweden. The purpose of the thesis was to develop and design calculations andsimulation tools for ABB FACTS?s standard series capacitor platforms. The thesis has alsoserved as an evaluation of the FEM program SolidWorks Simulation.The thesis began with a pre study where the standards and requirements that ABB FACTS has toconsider during design were investigated. Since most of these series compensation plants aresent to the United States, the American standard ASCE7-05 was used in the calculations of wind,snow and ice loads. A reference frame was developed where knowledge obtained from the prestudy and previous projects in the ABB is presented. After that, the load calculations, modelingand simulations of the platforms and equipment standing on these platforms began. The toolsused in this project were Excel, SolidWorks and SolidWorks Simulation.The thesis resulted in a calculation program developed in Excel and four models for simulationsin SolidWorks Simulation. Two simulation models were modeled so that they can be used on thelaptops that most of the employees at ABB FACTS are using. The second set of simulationmodels are designed to run on ABB FACTS?s calculation computer. These models contains inaddition to the platform also the equipment mounted on it. The models have been verifiedagainst ABB Corporate Research. A manual and a report template have also been developed.The manual explains how the user in the simplest way combines the Excel calculations with themodels in SolidWorks Simulation. The report template is designed so that the results from thecalculations and simulations easily can be entered and sent to the customer.