IS 9080 : Part 2 : Sec 1 : 1979 Safety requirements in electro-heat installations: Part 2 Particular requirements for resistance heating equipment, Section 1 Protection in direct resistance heating installations

1. Scope

1.1 The particular requirements laid down is this standard apply to equipment for the direct resistance heating of a charge or of an encloser surrounding the latter and should they not be covered requirments,they apply among others to:

a) salt-bath furnaces with electrods;

b)melting furnaces;

c) equipment for direct heating of solids and of components such as rivets, wires, pipes, rolled billets) with the exception of welding equipments and

d)furnaces with electrodes for glass and melting.