EN 62395-2:2013

Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial applications - Part 2: Application guide for system design, installation and maintenance

IEC/TS 62395-2:2008 provides detailed recommendations for the system design, installation, maintenance and repair of electrical resistance trace heating systems in industrial and commercial applications. Pertains to trace heating systems that may comprise either factory constructed or field (work-site) assembled units, and which may be series heater cables, parallel heater cables, heater pads or heater panels that have been assembled and/or terminated in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions for connection to voltage supplies up to and including 450 V/750 V.

Elektrische Widerstands-Begleitheizungen für industrielle und gewerbliche Zwecke - Teil 2: Anwendungsleitfaden für Systemauslegung, Installation und Wartung

Systèmes de traçage par résistance électrique pour applications industrielles et commerciales - Partie 2: Guide d'application pour la conception, l'installation et la maintenance du système

La CEI/TS 62395-2:2008 fournit des recommandations détaillées pour la conception, l'installation, la maintenance et la réparation des systèmes de traçage par résistance électrique dans les applications industrielles et commerciales. Traite des systèmes de traçage qui peuvent comprendre aussi bien des unités assemblées sur site (site d'exploitation) que des unités fabriquées en usine et qui peuvent être des câbles de traçage en série, des câbles de traçage en parallèle, des bandes ou des panneaux de traçage qui ont été assemblés et/ou équipés de terminaisons conformément aux instructions du fabricant pour le raccordement aux alimentations de tensions inférieures ou égales à 450 V/750 V.

Industrijski in komercialni sistemi električnih uporovnih grelnih trakov - 2. del: Vodilo za načrtovanje sistema, namestitev in vzdrževanje (IEC 62395-2:2013)

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 05-Dec-2013
• Withdrawal Date: 13-Oct-2016
• ICS: 25.180.10 - Electric furnaces
• Technical Committee: CLC/SR 27 - Industrial electroheating equipment
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 27 - IEC_TC_27
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 06-Dec-2013
• Completion Date: 06-Dec-2013
• Ref Project: SIST EN 62395-2:2014 - Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial applications - Part 2: Application guide for system design, installation and maintenance

Relations

• Replaces: CLC/TS 62395-2:2010 - Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial applications - Part 2: Application guide for system design, installation and maintenance
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023

Overview

EN 62395-2:2013 (IEC 62395-2:2013) is the CLC/CENELEC European standard Part 2 application guide for electrical resistance trace heating systems used in industrial and commercial applications. It provides practical recommendations for system design, installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair for factory-constructed or field-assembled trace heating including series and parallel heater cables, heater pads and heater panels intended for connection to supplies up to 450 V/750 V. EN 62395-2 complements EN/IEC 62395-1 (general and testing requirements) by focusing on application-specific guidance and safe practice.

Key topics and technical requirements

The standard covers a wide range of technical topics and requirements, including:

• Thermal system design: heat-loss determination, insulation selection, heat-up and safety factors for maintaining process or freeze protection temperatures.
• Electrical design: circuit layouts, long-trace considerations, voltage ratings (up to 450 V/750 V) and protection measures.
• Control and monitoring: selection and location of controllers and sensors, alarm strategies, integrated control, and dead-leg control techniques.
• Application-specific guidance: surface heating of vessels and piping, sprinkler systems, safety eyewash/showers, hot water services, roof and gutter de-icing, and rail/switch point heating.
• Installation and commissioning: preparatory work, insulation resistance testing, mounting of heaters and components, power connections and commissioning checks.
• Maintenance and repair: inspection frequencies, visual and electrical evaluation, fault location and practicable repair techniques.
• Safety and documentation: design documentation, personnel training, and electrical protection review.

Practical applications and users

EN 62395-2 is designed to be used by professionals involved in the lifecycle of trace heating systems:

• Design engineers specifying trace heating for freeze protection, process temperature maintenance or anti-icing.
• Installation contractors and site electricians performing field assembly, termination and commissioning.
• Maintenance teams responsible for inspection, testing, repair and asset management.
• Facility managers, safety officers and specifiers who need compliance and documentation for industrial and commercial heating projects.
  Typical applications include pipe and vessel heat tracing, roof/gutter de-icing, spray- and sprinkler-protected systems, safety showers/eyewash units, and rail turnout heating.

Related standards

• EN 62395-1:2013 - Part 1: General and testing requirements (companion standard)
• IEC/EN 60519-1 - Safety in electroheating installations - General requirements

EN 62395-2:2013 is a practical, application-focused guide to ensure safe, reliable and maintainable electrical trace heating installations in industry and commercial facilities.

Standards Content (Sample)

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Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial applications -
Part 2: Application guide for system design, installation and maintenance
Elektrische Begleitheizungen (Trace- Widerstandsheizungen) für industrielle und
gewerbliche Zwecke - Teil 2: Anwendungsleitfaden für Systementwurf, Installation und
Wartung
Systèmes de traçage par résistance électrique pour applications industrielles et
commerciales - Partie 2: Guide d'application pour la conception, l'installation et la
maintenance du système
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62395-2:2013
ICS:
25.180.10 (OHNWULþQHSHþL Electric furnaces
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 62395-2
NORME EUROPÉENNE
December 2013
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 25.180.10 Supersedes CLC/TS 62395-2:2010

English version
Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial
and commercial applications -
Part 2: Application guide for system design, installation and maintenance
(IEC 62395-2:2013)
Systèmes de traçage par résistance Elektrische Widerstands-Begleitheizungen
électrique pour applications industrielles für industrielle und gewerbliche Zwecke -
et commerciales - Teil 2: Anwendungsleitfaden für
Partie 2: Guide d'application pour la Systementwurf, Installation und Wartung
conception, l'installation et la maintenance (IEC 62395-2:2013)
du système
(CEI 62395-2:2013)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2013-10-14. CENELEC members are bound to comply
with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard
the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
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Ref. No. EN 62395-2:2013 E
Foreword
The text of document 27/927/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 62395-2, prepared by IEC/TC 27 "Industrial
electroheating and electromagnetic processing" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and
approved by CENELEC as EN 62395-2:2013.

The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2014-07-14
• latest date by which the document has to be
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national (dow) 2016-10-14
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes CLC/TS 62395-2:2010.

- this document has been changed from a Technical Specification to a European Standard;
- design considerations for trace heating on sprinkler systems have been expanded and a figure has been
added to illustrate how to avoid undue shadowing of spray patterns from insulated sprigs close to
sprinkler heads;
- specific details of design considerations for trace heating for emergency eyewash units and safety
showers have been added.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62395-2:2013 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:

IEC 60079-30-1:2007 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60079-30-1:2007 (not modified).
IEC 60079-30-2:2007 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60079-30-2:2007 (not modified).
IEC 60335-2-83:2001 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-2-83:2002 (not modified).
IEC 60335-2-83:2001/A1:2008 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-2-83:2002/A1:2008 (not modified).
IEC 60335-2-96:2002 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-2-96:2002 (not modified).
IEC 60335-2-96:2002/A1:2003 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-2-96:2002/A1:2004 (not modified).
IEC 60335-2-96:2002/A2:2008 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-2-96:2002/A2:2009 (not modified).

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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references,
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE  When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD applies.

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC 60519-1 - Safety in electroheating installations - EN 60519-1 -
Part 1: General requirements
IEC 62395-1 2013 Electrical resistance trace heating systems for EN 62395-1 2013
industrial and commercial applications -
Part 1: General and testing requirements

IEC 62395-2 ®
Edition 1.0 2013-09
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
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inside
Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial

applications –
Part 2: Application guide for system design, installation and maintenance

Systèmes de traçage par résistance électrique pour applications industrielles et

commerciales –
Partie 2: Guide d’application pour la conception, l’installation et la maintenance

du système
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
CODE PRIX XC
ICS 25.180.10 ISBN 978-2-8322-1082-6

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 7
INTRODUCTION . 9
1 Scope . 10
2 Normative references . 11
3 Terms and definitions . 11
4 Surface heating of vessels and piping systems . 11
4.1 Application description . 11
4.1.1 General . 11
4.1.2 Environmental conditions . 11
4.1.3 Trace heating systems considerations . 12
4.2 Design information – General . 12
4.2.1 General . 12
4.2.2 Electrical system design . 12
4.2.3 Control and monitoring . 12
4.2.4 Trace heating system design . 13
4.2.5 Design information documentation . 13
4.3 Thermal system design . 14
4.3.1 General . 14
4.3.2 Design conditions . 14
4.3.3 Thermal insulation . 15
4.3.4 Heat loss determination . 19
4.3.5 Design safety factor . 20
4.3.6 Heat-up considerations . 20
4.3.7 Selection of trace heater . 21
4.3.8 Design calculations. 23
4.3.9 Theoretical sheath temperature calculations – Metallic pipe
applications . 24
4.3.10 Theoretical sheath temperature calculations – Non-metallic pipe
applications . 25
4.3.11 Design documentation . 26
4.3.12 Start-up at low ambient temperatures . 26
4.3.13 Long trace heater circuits . 27
4.3.14 Chimney effect . 27
4.4 Electrical design . 27
4.5 Control and monitoring system design . 27
4.5.1 General . 27
4.5.2 Mechanical controllers . 28
4.5.3 Electronic controllers . 28
4.5.4 Application suitability . 28
4.5.5 Location of controllers . 29
4.5.6 Location of sensors . 29
4.5.7 Alarm considerations . 30
4.5.8 Integrated control . 31
4.5.9 Flow pattern analysis . 31
4.5.10 Dead-leg control technique . 33
4.6 Special design considerations . 33
4.6.1 General . 33

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4.6.2 Freeze protection systems . 33
4.6.3 Sprinkler systems, fire suppression . 33
4.6.4 Hot water services/tempered water . 35
4.6.5 Safety shower design requirements . 36
4.6.6 Specialty lines . 36
4.7 Installation. 38
4.7.1 General . 38
4.7.2 Personnel aspects . 38
4.7.3 Preparatory work . 38
4.7.4 Preliminary installation of trace heating circuits . 39
4.7.5 Insulation resistance test . 39
4.7.6 Installation of trace heater systems . 39
4.7.7 Installation of control and monitoring equipment . 42
4.7.8 Necessary modifications . 43
4.7.9 Installation of the thermal insulation system. 43
4.7.10 Installation of electrical power . 44
4.7.11 Commissioning . 45
4.8 Maintenance . 46
4.8.1 General . 46
4.8.2 Training of maintenance personnel . 46
4.8.3 Frequency of inspection . 46
4.8.4 Maintenance program documentation . 46
4.8.5 Visual evaluation . 47
4.8.6 Electrical evaluation . 47
4.8.7 Review of the electrical protection system . 47
4.9 Repair . 48
4.9.1 General . 48
4.9.2 Fault location . 48
4.9.3 Practicability of repair to electric trace heaters . 48
4.9.4 Repair techniques for electrical trace heaters . 49
5 Roof and gutter de-icing . 49
5.1 Application description . 49
5.2 Design information – General . 50
5.3 Thermal design . 51
5.4 Electrical design . 51
5.5 Control and monitoring system design . 51
5.6 Special design considerations . 51
5.7 Installation. 51
5.7.1 General . 51
5.7.2 Trace heaters and component mounting . 52
5.8 Maintenance . 55
5.9 Repair . 55
6 Rail heating . 55
6.1 Application description . 55
6.1.1 General . 55
6.1.2 Switch point heating . 56
6.1.3 Contact/live rail heating . 56
6.1.4 Track heating . 56
6.1.5 Catenary/pantograph shoe heating . 56

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6.2 Design information . 57
6.2.1 General . 57
6.2.2 Weather data . 57
6.2.3 Rail system description . 57
6.2.4 System design . 57
6.3 Thermal design . 57
6.3.1 Heating load determination . 57
6.3.2 Typical heating load . 58
6.4 Electrical design . 58
6.5 Control and monitoring system design . 58
6.6 Special design considerations . 58
6.6.1 Electrical considerations . 58
6.6.2 Finite element analysis . 59
6.7 Installation. 59
6.7.1 General . 59
6.7.2 Point heating . 60
6.7.3 Swing nose crossing . 60
6.7.4 Clamp lock heating . 61
6.7.5 Contact/live rail heating and track heating . 61
6.7.6 Catenary/pantograph shoe heating . 62
6.8 Maintenance . 62
6.9 Repair . 62
7 Snow melting . 62
7.1 Application description . 62
7.2 Design information . 63
7.2.1 General . 63
7.2.2 Weather data . 63
7.2.3 Construction details of workpiece . 63
7.2.4 Electrical considerations . 63
7.2.5 System performance level . 63
7.2.6 Trace heater layout and component mounting. 64
7.3 Thermal design – Power output (heat load) determination . 68
7.4 Electrical design . 68
7.5 Control and monitoring system design . 68
7.6 Special design considerations . 68
7.7 Installation. 69
7.8 Maintenance . 69
7.9 Repair . 70
8 Floor warming. 70
8.1 Application description . 70
8.2 Design information . 70
8.2.1 General . 70
8.2.2 Environmental data . 70
8.2.3 Construction details of workpiece . 70
8.2.4 Electrical considerations . 70
8.2.5 Trace heater layout and component mounting. 71
8.3 Thermal design – Heat load determination . 72
8.4 Electrical design . 73
8.5 Control and monitoring system design . 73

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8.6 Special design consideration . 73
8.7 Installation. 74
8.8 Maintenance . 74
8.9 Repair . 74
9 Frost heave prevention . 74
9.1 Application description . 74
9.2 Design information . 75
9.2.1 General . 75
9.2.2 Construction details of the floor . 75
9.2.3 Electrical considerations . 75
9.3 Heat load determination . 75
9.3.1 General . 75
9.3.2 Trace heater layout and component mounting. 77
9.4 Electrical design . 77
9.5 Control and monitoring system design . 77
9.5.1 Control options . 77
9.5.2 Monitoring . 77
9.6 Special design considerations . 77
9.7 Installation. 78
9.8 Maintenance . 78
9.9 Repair . 78
10 Underground thermal energy storage systems . 78
10.1 Application description . 78
10.2 Design information . 79
10.2.1 General . 79
10.2.2 Environmental data . 79
10.2.3 Construction details of building . 79
10.2.4 Electrical considerations . 79
10.2.5 Trace heater layout and component mounting. 79
10.3 Thermal design – Heat-loss determination . 80
10.4 Electrical design . 80
10.5 Control and monitoring system design . 81
10.6 Special design considerations when trace heaters are located in sand layer. 81
10.7 Installation. 81
10.7.1 General . 81
10.7.2 Installation in sand . 81
10.7.3 Installation in concrete . 81
10.8 Maintenance . 82
10.9 Repair . 82
Annex A (informative) Pre-installation checks . 83
Annex B (informative) Trace heater commissioning record . 84
Annex C (informative) Maintenance schedule and log record . 85
Bibliography . 86

Figure 1 – Thermal insulation – Weather-barrier installation . 17
Figure 2 – Typical temperature profile . 18
Figure 3 – Equilibrium conditions for workpiece maintenance . 22
Figure 4 – Equilibrium conditions for upper limit evaluation . 23

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Figure 5 – Heated tank example . 32
Figure 6 – Bypass example . 32
Figure 7 – Fire sprinkler sprig: tapered thermal insulation . 35
Figure 8 – Double containment system . 37
Figure 9 – Gravity flow piping systems . 38
Figure 10 – Ice dam formation . 50
Figure 11 – Downspout to underground drain . 50
Figure 12 – Roof and gutter trace heater arrangement . 52
Figure 13 – Gutter detail . 53
Figure 14 – Typical roof mounting methods . 54
Figure 15 – Drain detail for flat roof . 55
Figure 16 – Typical positioning of point trace heater on stock rail and switch rail . 60
Figure 17 – Typical positioning of trace heater on swing nose crossing . 60
Figure 18 – Typical clamp lock trace heater . 61
Figure 19 – Typical positioning of trace heater on steel and aluminium clad contact
rails . 61
Figure 20 – Typical positioning of trace heater in pantograph shoe . 62
Figure 21 – Snow melting trace heater embedded in concrete . 65
Figure 22 – Snow melting trace heater located in conduit . 66
Figure 23 – Expansion joint detail . 67
Figure 24 – Snow melting junction box location . 67
Figure 25 – Typical floor warming trace heater mounting . 72
Figure 26 – Typical floor heating power requirements . 73
Figure 27 – Typical frost heave prevention substructure . 75
Figure 28 – Frost heave prevention power requirements . 76
Figure 29 – Typical underground thermal energy storage system installation . 80

Table 1 – Application types . 13
Table 2 – Recommendations for monitoring and control – Type II and III control . 29
Table 3 – Recommendations for hot water services and tempered water temperatures . 35
Table 4 – Typical snow melting heat loads . 64

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International Standard IEC 62395-2 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 27:
Industrial electroheating and electromagnetic processing.
This standard cancels and replaces IEC/TS 62395-2:2008.
This standard includes the following significant technical changes with respect to
IEC/TS 62395-2:2008:
• This document has been changed from a Technical Specification to an International
Standard.
• Design considerations for trace heating on sprinkler systems have been expanded and a
figure has been added to illustrate how to avoid undue shadowing of spray patterns from
insulated sprigs close to sprinkler heads;

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• Specific details of design considerations for trace heating for emergency eyewash units
and safety showers have been added.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
27/927/FDIS 27/936/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
A list of all parts in the IEC 62395 series, under the general title Electrical resistance trace
heating systems for industrial and commercial applications, can be found on the IEC website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
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INTRODUCTION
IEC 62395-1 provides the essential requirements and testing appropriate to electrical
resistance trace heating equipment used in industrial and commercial applications. While
some of this work already exists in national or international standards, this standard has
collated much of this existing work and added considerably to it.
IEC 62395-2 provides detailed recommendations for the system design, installation,
maintenance and repair of electrical resistance trace heating systems in industrial and
commercial applications which can include piping, vessels, roofs and concrete slab heating
applications.
It is the objective of IEC 62395 that, when in normal use, electrical trace heating systems
operate safely under their defined conditions of use, by
a) employing heaters of the appropriate construction so as to meet the test criteria and
requirements detailed in IEC 62395-1. The construction includes a metallic sheath, braid,
screen or equivalent electrically conductive covering;
b) operating at safe temperatures when designed, installed, and maintained in accordance
with IEC 62395-2;
c) having at least the minimum levels of overcurrent and earth-fault protection required in
IEC 62395-1 and IEC 62395-2.
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1 Scope
This part of IEC 62395 provides detailed recommendations for the system design, installation,
maintenance and repair of electrical resistance trace heating systems in industrial and
commercial applications. This standard does not include or provide for any applications in
potentially explosive atmospheres.
This standard pertains to trace heating systems that may comprise either factory fabricated or
field-assembled (work-site) units, and which may be series or parallel trace heaters, or
surface heaters (heater pads or heater panels) that have been assembled and/or terminated
in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.
The products covered by this standard are intended to be installed by persons who are
suitably trained in the techniques required and that only trained personnel carry out especially
critical work, such as the installation of connections and terminations. Installations are
intended to be carried out under the supervision of a qualified person who has undergone
supplementary training in electric trace heating systems.
This standard does not cover induction, impedance or skin effect heating.
Trace heating systems can be grouped into different types of installations. These are
characterized by different requirements for testing and are usually certified for a specific type
of installation or application. Typical applications for the different types of installation are as
follows:
a) Installations of trace heating on pipes, vessels and associated equipment. Applications
include:
– freeze protection and temperature maintenance;
– hot water lines;
– oil and chemical lines;
– sprinkler systems.
b) Outdoor exposed area installations of trace heating. Applications include:
– roof de-icing;
– gutter and downspout de-icing;
– catch basins and drains;
– rail heating.
c) Installation with embedded trace heating. Applications include:
– snow melting;
– floor warming;
– frost heave prevention;
– underground thermal energy storage systems;
– door frames.
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d) Installations of trace heating internal to conduit or piping. Applications include:
– snow melting – in conduit;
– floor warming – in conduit;
– frost heave prevention – in conduit;
– underground thermal energy storage systems – in conduit;
– internal trace heating of potable water lines;
– enclosed drains and culverts.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and
are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
IEC 60519-1, Safety in electroheating installations – Part 1: General requirements
IEC 62395-1:2013, Electrical resistance trace heating systems for industrial and commercial
applications – Part 1: General and testing requirements
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in IEC 60519-1 and
IEC 62395-1:2013 apply.
NOTE General definitions are given in the International Electrotechn
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