European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization

Safety in installations for electroheating and electromagnetic processing - Part 1: General requirements
 N EN 60519-1

Annotation

Scope and object

This part of IEC 60519 specifies general safety requirements for industrial installations or equipment intended for electroheating (EH) and electroheating based treatment technologies as well as for electromagnetic processing of materials (EPM).

The requirements are applicable to industrial installations or equipment with the possible use as:

– equipment for direct and indirect resistance heating,

– equipment for electric resistance trace heating,

– equipment for induction heating,

– equipment using the effect of electromagnetic forces on materials,

– equipment for arc heating, including submerged arc heating,

– equipment for electroslag remelting,

– equipment for plasma heating and plasma surface treatment,

– equipment for microwave heating,

– equipment for dielectric heating,

– equipment using electron guns,

– equipment for infrared radiation heating,

– equipment for laser heating.

NOTE The list presents typical examples of equipment and its applications and is not exhaustive.