UNE-EN IEC 60519-1:2020

This part of IEC 60519 specifies the 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). This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events relevant to industrial EH and EPM equipment, as listed in Annex A, for normal operation and for single-fault condition as well as under conditions of misuse that are reasonably foreseeable.

This document specifies the requirements intended to be met by the manufacturer to ensure the safety of persons and property during the complete life cycle of the equipment from design through commissioning, operation, maintenance, inspection, to decommissioning, as well as in the event of foreseeable single-fault condition that can occur in the equipment.

These General Requirements apply to all industrial EH and EPM equipment, unless an exception is given in the Particular Requirements dealing with specific equipment in other parts of IEC 60519. The provisions of other parts of IEC 60519 that directly apply to specific types of equipment take precedence over the provisions of this document.

Annex I and J provide orientation with respect to the application of ISO 13577-1 in combination with this standard.

The rated voltage of EH and EPM equipment can be in the range of low voltage, details are given in Clause 4.2.

This standard presumes that the installation or equipment is operated and maintained only by personnel consisting of skilled or instructed persons.

This standard is intended for verifying whether the EH or EPM installation or equipment meets the requirements of this standard through design, site acceptance tests, routine tests or inspection.

Annex H provides a guide on the use of this standard and a list of typical industrial EH and EPM processes.

This standard does not apply to equipment and appliances within the scope of IEC 60079 series i.e. equipment intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres;

IEC 60335 series, i.e. household, commercial and similar electrical appliances, including room heating;

IEC 60601 series i.e. medical electrical equipment;

IEC 60974 series i.e. arc welding equipment;

IEC 61010 series i.e. equipment for laboratory use.

This document does not provide requirements for type testing.

NOTE Industrial equipment covered by this standard is typically produced as a single unit or a very small number of units; such unit usually has a very high value and can cause severe harm at disintegration.

This document does not address data security and hazards arising from neglect of security.