DKE German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE
DIN EN 60519-1
; VDE 0721-1:2017-06
Safety in installations for electroheating and electromagnetic processing - Part 1: General requirements (IEC 60519-1:2015); German version EN 60519-1:2015
Sicherheit in Elektrowärmeanlagen und Anlagen für elektromagnetische Bearbeitungsprozesse - Teil 1: Allgemeine Anforderungen (IEC 60519-1:2015); Deutsche Fassung EN 60519-1:2015
Overview
This standard deals with the general safety regulations for industrial electric heating systems and is the basic standard for the other standards in the DIN EN 60519-1 series. The requirements apply to industrial electric heating systems and associated processing equipment in the following possible applications: - equipment for direct and indirect resistance heating; - equipment for electric resistance trace heating; - equipment for induction heating; - equipment using the effect of electromotive forces on liquid metals; - equipment for arc heating, including submerged arc heating; - equipment for electroslag remelting; - equipment for plasma heating; - equipment for microwave heating; - equipment for dielectric heating; - equipment using electron guns; - equipment for laser heating; - equipment for infrared radiation heating. The responsible committee is DKE/K 362 "Industrielle Elektrowärme" ("Industrial electroheat") of the DKE (German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies) at DIN and VDE.
