Status Report on Electric Heat Tracing Standards Writing Activities

This paper was prepared for presentation at the 1981 Joint Power Generation Conference for the purpose of educating and updating the industry as to what IEEE Standards have been and are. being prepared for use in designing and installing electric heat tracing systems in generating stations. The paper gives a brief description and explanation of electric heat tracing systems and how they are used, and then moves on to discussions of-IEEE Std. 622-1979, IEEE P622A, and proposed IEEE P622B. The discussions of the above listed standards cover such areas as the reasons for producing the standards, history of their development, controversial aspects of the standards and industry acceptance of the standards. Also discussed in this paper are plans of the Working Group for the development of future IEEE Standards.