NIBE - world class solutions in sustainable energy

NIBE - World class solutions in sustainable energy NIBE Industrier AB is the parent company of the NIBE Group of companies. It is an international 682 M€ company employing a staff of more than 8,000 people. Since 1997 listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. Operations are organized in three business areas: NIBE Element, NIBE Energy Systems and NIBE Stoves. Our business idea is to offer high quality and innovative energy technical products and solutions to the market. Basing ourselves comprehensive knowledge about product development, manufacturing and marketing. NIBE Element is the market leader in Northern Europe and a leading international manufacturer of components and systems for electric heating applications and for resistors. The market is made up of industrial users and users of components. NIBE Railway Components is a cooperation between five companies in the NIBE Element group, providing components or technology for the railway industry. The Backer group produces and sells heating components under the brand names of Backer, Meyer, Eltop, Facsa, FER, REBA and ELC. Main product technologies are tubular elements and flexible foil heaters. Production units in Sweden, Poland, Norway, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, UK, China and Mexico. SAN Electro-Heat A/S, founded in 1950. Produces and supplies heating products all over the world with main focus on Wind Power, Railway Systems, Process Industry and Heating Cables. Specialized in complete switch point, contact rail and contact wire heating systems. Production units in Denmark, Poland and China. Danotherm specializes in design and production of power resistors mainly for use in power electronic equipments. Focus area: Motor controls, Wind turbines and Railway systems. Danotherm has its production units in Denmark, Poland and Italy. The Jevi Group Jevi manufactures tubular elements and develops/produces customer-specific heating solutions, including cabin heating and toilet heating to leading providers in the railway industry. Facilities in Denmark and Netherlands. Loval is market leader in Finland. Two thirds of the production go for export. Loval manufactures tubular heating elements, flow through boilers, steam generators and cabin heating elements with brazed on finning for rolling stock. Production in Finland.

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INFRASTRUCTURE SAN Electro Heat a/s Gillelejevej 30b DK-3230 Graested, Denmark Tel: +45 48 39 88 88 Fax: +45 48 39 88 98 COMFORT HEATING Backer BHV AB SE-280 10 Sösdala, Sweden Tel: +46 451 66 100 Fax: +46 451 614 37 RESISTORS Danotherm Electric A/S Naesbyvej 20 DK-2610 Rodovre, Denmark Tel: +45 36 73 22 22 Fax: +45 36 73 22 23 www.niberailway.com [email protected]

Electrical - Intelligent - Energy Saving

NIBE Railway Components aims to make it easy for our potential customers, existing customers, and partners to get high quality solutions for a wide spectrum of heating related railway applications. Our solutions cover both infrastructure and rolling stock. We supply components as well as complete intelligent systems and software. NIBE Railway Components is your single point of contact and inspiration. NIBE Railway Components: • Mulitple heating technologies for optimal cost and technical solutions • 60 years of accumulated competence and experience in the railway sector • International organization with local presence • Many specialized R&D departments to bring new innovative solutions to the market • Customized solutions fulfilling special requirements • Strong focus on sustainable energy NIBE Railway Components strives to provide top quality products combined with a flexible way of working, all the way through the process from sales, product development, manufacturing and logistics. We supply products meeting all relevant standards and tests, certifying products according to customer specifications and draw on facilities for carrying out tests for our customers in modern labs, constantly improving our product performance.

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Switch Point Heating System Control Cubicle State of the art control cubicle to control the heat. Measuring the temperature of the heated and the cold rail, monitors the weather situation and receives the latest weather forecast online. Reports any detected errors by wireless communication with the supervision system. An advanced Master + Slave concept reduces the investment.

Safety Transformers

Snow Detectors

Double insulated transformer class II. No earthing needed. Mounted on brackets in ballast. Up to 10 kVA, 1, 2 or 3 phase input, 2 phase output.

Maintenance free snow detector with heated snow-catcher and gold plated heated sensors. Preferred for its reliability and efficiency by many railways.

Intelligent weather based Heat Control Save up to 60% energy compared to simple thermostat controlled systems and up to 85% by adding on-line weather forecast. Multiple modes minimize the use of energy but never jeopardize the main purpose of preventing traffic interruption.

Complete efficient energy saving Heating System to secure reliable Railway Traffic, through Switch points in severe Winter Weather Conditions System BLUE POINT is a scalable system ranging from small stand-alone installations to large territory solutions. The product range covers all components from heating elements through control cubicles to supervision software.

Smart Weather Control™ for Energy Saving Analyzing short term weather forecast for a specific location. Save energy without loosing the efficiency of the heating when needed.

Point Heater Warehouse Large quantity of point heating elements stocked. Ready for delivery before next winter season.

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Switch Point Heating

Heating Elements

Fixation

Flexible Design

No switch point heating system is better than the heating element. Our heating elements are known for the unique shock absorbent design. The solid heating wire is wrapped with a fibreglass thread and stabilized in magnesium oxide. Jacket of high grade stainless steel and single ended water proof connection head. A proven design to withstand the extreme railway environment for decades.

The elements are mounted on the base of the rail by means of special clips made of corrosion-resistant chrome-nickel steel. The chosen surface pressure guarantees the optimum heat transfer and allows an unavoidable linear expansion of the heating element.

The design makes the heating element so flexible that it can be bent on site and no special care has to be taken during transportation.

Heating Core Advanced spinning machines make the unique inner core of the heating element. Elements with a proven lifetime of 20+ years.

Heating Switch point heating is about heating the rails and melting ice or snow between the switchrail and the stockrail before it accumulates and disrupts the switch mechanism. Melting the ice and snow is done from various attack points, using conducted heating as well as radiated heating. Stockrail heating, switchrail heating and switch mechanism / point lock heating.

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Remote Monitoring Software

Photo: Henrik Clifford (Operation Centre)

Easy Overview Use of consistent icons and graphics makes it very easy to “read” a complete installation. Drill down from the overview to detailed on-line information or historical data.

SCADA Supervision Control & Monitoring Software Bond together all point heaters or overhead wire heating in a territory. Get valuable information visible for: • • •

Traffic Control Department Maintenance Department Technical Department

Scalable ready-to-use software package that makes any BLUE POINT heating solutions to an energy and maintenance cost efficient system. • • • • • • • • • • • •

Complete system overview Instant messages upon critical failures Individual control settings down to every installation/station Energy Management; counters and statistics Urgent call for maintenance Monitoring local weather conditions Distribution of local weather forecast to every control cubicle Command individual switches or sections to heat Errors or other malfunctions on-line Centralized update of cubicle software Security; Multi level user access Share information with other SCADA systems

Communication between control cubicles and SCADA can be wired Ethernet or wireless GPRS/GSM.

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Reduce IT Investments Hosted Internet SCADA System BLUE POINT SCADA is also available as a hosted solution. No need for expensive IT hardware and maintenance. All users will have access to the application just using the internet. Data to and from the installation via secure wireless communication. Hosted SCADA solution is designed specially for smaller railway companies, medium sized city tramlines, single large installations like one station, a tunnel or a bridge, but also for test installations before full implementation.

Icons used for fast Status View Special icons are used to show the different modes for every controller in the area. Fast reading of a complete territory regarding weather and controlling status.

Efficiency Improving Installations

Insulated Stockrail Typically 20-30% reduction of energy or increased efficiency of switch point heating by insulation of the outer side of the stockrail. Easy to mount solution.

Infrared picture showing an insulated switch point with heating elements both on stockrail and switchrail.

Switch Point Snow Cover Cover the critical area between the switchrail and the stockrail from drifting snow and falling ice blocks from passing trains.

Monitoring of critical Installations Pump stations, platform lighting, signal cubicles, transformer temperature etc. Independent system to report exceeded max. values or supervision of status. Full wireless communication to SCADA system. Illustration shows supervision of pump stations.

Load Resistor Test System for Diesel-electric Trains Save expensive time and energy on running the diesel locomotives on test runs after service. Complete generator performance test system including measurements and documentation of electro performance, ignition pressure, exhaust temperature, oil temperature etc. Installation on the picture is a 2,8 MW load resistor.

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De-icing Overhead Contact Wire and Conductor Rail

Contact Wire Heating

Heating

Remote Control

Permanent solution to de-ice the overhead contact wire in critical areas like uphill lines, tunnel entrance, bridges and yards. The heating system is powered from the overhead wire.

Consists of an insulated constant wattage heater surrounded by a heat transfer material. The heating cable is in a triangular shape for easy mounting and excellent heat transfer.

Control cubicles to switch on/off heating when needed based on weather conditions and weather forecast. Supervision system to control multiple lines or regions.

Eliminate Costly Interruptions of Revenue Service due to the Effect of Ice/Frost Accumulation on the Contact Wire or Contact Rail Ice on the contact wire/rail causes tramlines and light rails to lose power and in extreme cases leads to the contact wire/catenary system being brought down. Arcing caused by the presence of ice leads to excessive wear to the pantograph conductor or pick-up shoe, all leading to traffic delays and service disruption. NIBE Railway Components offers the System BLUE WIRE for heating up the overhead wire and the system BLUE RAIL to prevent accumulation of ice on contact rail.

3rd Rail / Conductor Rail Heating Selfregulating heating cable or parallel constant wattage heating cables. Mounting clips and fibre glass channel for any type of conductor rail including aluminum types.

Ice and snow on the conductor rail causes the train pickup shoes to lose contact. By heating the conductor rail, the ice and snow will melt.

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Tramline - Switch Point Heating

Typical imbedded Boxes

Point Heating Element

Tramline Point Heating is Challenging

for access to the heating strip for point heating. The heater is placed in a protective tube welded to the tramline channel rail.

special designed for the extreme conditions present on the winter city road. Materials selected for the hot moisture salty conditions where normal heating elements must give up.

Not only to melt falling snow but also snow and ice from moving cars and as on the picture from rail snow ploughs.

Smart Weather Control™ Energy Saving City Solution - Tramline Switch Point Heating Avoid point heating burning 6-7 month a year… Many days are cold but no ice or snow. System Blue Point controls the energy so heating will only be present when needed. Relevant weather information from strategically placed weather stations around the city is monitored. Weather forecast for the whole city is analyzed. If snow falls, or present relevant controllers get the message to heat. Information about errors and other conditions from each controller is communicated back to the relevant people.

WEATHER FORECAST

SCADA SERVER

OPERATORS INTERNET

Cabinet for point heating control Weather station

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Resistors

ALPHA Compact encapsulated Resistors Steady state power range from 30W – 10kW. Especially designed to withstand high pulse loads in applications like charging capacitor banks. Overload values can easily be 40 times the nominal value at 1 second and stay cool on the outside.

Water cooled Brake Resistors for Trams Resistors with high IP class that capture the brake energy which is re-used for heating. The resistors are compact, have low noise level and are intrinsically safe.

Application Service We offer our support by using computer simulation software and thermal models to predict the temperature of the various parts of the resistor. Thus securing the correct choice for the right component without oversizing, and speeding up your design. The thermal model depends on the size and weight of the resistor, wire size and length and filling material.

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Resistors for Snubbers for Semiconductor Switches For snubber resistors we offer our Vitreous enamelled and Cement coated ceramic resistors. They are available with normal or with low inductance winding. Terminals may be wire, solder or screw connection.

Foil Elements

Flexible Foil Elements

Floor Heating

Our flexible foil has been supplied to the Railway industry for decades, and they are approved for high-tech, weight-management applications. A space saving efficient alternative for comfort heating to be used as floor heating, frost protection, rear-view mirror heating and seat heaters. The flexible foil is supplied in various qualities such as PVC, Polyester, Silicon and Mica.

With our electric radiant heated floor solutions you can save space and weight by installing foil as floor heating. Power output from 160W – 535W/m2 and supply voltage 120-600VAC.

Lens heaters Flexible foils installed for preventing ice and condensation on night cameras and spotlights.

Couplers It is important to heat the couplers to prevent icing and freezing during winter conditions. Hydraulic oil and grease must be smooth. We have technical heating solutions, using flexible foils and cartridge heaters.

Windscreen wiper heaters A number of flexible foils assembled directly in the wiper and in the stand-by position for efficiency against icing and freezing of the wiper which makes it a safety application.

Steps

Doors

We offer a range of customized special solutions for easy installation to all steps and disabled ramps. Especially our range of flexible foils for defrosting and hydraulic oil heating, saves space and weight.

A range of efficient products such as flexible foil heaters, heating cables or other special solutions that guarantee easy installation and less maintenance.

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Heating Systems

Central Heat Exchanger

Electrical Convector

Air Duct Heaters

Compact heat exchanger with sealed outlets of double insulated cartridge heaters (27-36 pcs) for connection to the terminal line on trolley busses. Nom. power 29-40kW Nom. voltage 400-900 VDC

A low weight convector for heating of cars or driver cabin, assembled on wall. Meets requirements acc to EN 61373 and EN 60077-1.

Our air duct heaters are supplied with CE mark, and offer a wide range of airflows for fast warm-ups. They are easy to install if you choose to have them supplied with cables and customized electrical interface connectors according to plug and play principles. We are optimizing our air duct heaters with permanent weight management development.

Body side heating A wide range of solutions from light weight aluminium elements for radiant or self convection heating. Also tubular SS finned heaters. All heaters are tested according to EN 60077-1, NF F 13 209, and EN 61373. The heating elements can be supplied with temperature controls. All attached cables follow low-smoke demand DIN 5510-2. The elements may be supplied with single or double insulation.

Air Conditioning We offer a wide range of products for HVAC. Backer offers highest quality working closely with customers, suppliers and internally R&D and regular external certifying laboratories to meet the high demand from the railway industry.

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Heating Systems

Vestibule Heaters

Open Wire Heating Elements

Glycol Pre-Heater

A ready to be installed duct heater with temperature controls and fuses. Supplied with customized air temperature setting and fans. Our vestibule heaters are CE marked, and tested according to EN 61373 and EN 50155.

The heating elements are manufactured from mica insulation plates, stainless steel or aluminum frame and resistance wire. Can be supplied with temperature control solutions. Supply power up to 480V.

Flange heater mounted in pressure vessel, terminal box with built-in thermostat 20-45°C and temperature limiter. The pre-heater is supplied with 20 mm insulation and cover in stainless steel plate. Avaliable for water or oil; for various wattage and voltage and in different sizes according to customer requirements.

As a complement we also supply floor heating solutions, hydraulic heating, defrosting and air environment handling.

Driver’s cabin Within the group we supply a wide range of products such as floor heating, seat heating and air conditioning with temperature control for the best possible air environment for the driver. For additional comfort we offer utilities such as refrigerators and cooking plates, tested according to standard EN 60335-1.

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Toilets

Water Storage Heaters

Immersion Heaters

Heating Cables and Flexible Foil

We can supply a range of compact water storage heaters and different instantaneous water heating solutions for a fast and comfortable experience to the traveller.

High efficient, specially produced heaters for temperature control in waste water pipes and water tanks. Heaters supplied with vulcanized connections, thermostat, temperature controls (possibly electronic), according to customer requirements.

Flexible foil and heating cables are mainly used for temperature control on waste water pipes for de-icing. With flexible foil you save space. We offer a wide range of cables: constant wattage and self-regulating in different

Water Heating

Waste water tank

Water heating for toilets must be fast, efficient and safe. We supply flow-through heaters with temperature control and safety devices that correspond your expectations.

To prevent freezing during winter periods the waste water tank needs to be heated. We offer a range of heating solutions and qualities from immersion heaters to bifilar heaters with 100% watertight vulcanized electrical connections.

Water pipes

Toilet cabin heaters

To prevent icing and stops in waste water pipes they should be heated either with heating cables or flexible silicon foils.

Comfort air heating unit with built-in fan. Size and design to make it easy to build into the cabin wall. For standard or disabled toilet cabins.

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materials up to +900°C, and 250W/m.

Components

Light Weight Aluminium Elements

Tubular Elements

Cabinet Heaters

With elements in aluminium, you will benefit from the excellent heat conduction of the material, providing a fast and even heating profile. Backer aluminium elements are developed to improve elderly, traditional heating systems and we guarantee a noiseless operation of our products. We supply elements for radiant or convection heating, and they are avaliable with enlarged surfaces, allowing compact design; or surface treated to further improve the radiation efficiency. Aluminium plate heaters are offered based on customer requirements. Additionally we supply aluminium elements assembled on diffusion plates with temperature control. The elements are tested according to EN 60077-1. Supply power max 480V.

Traditional elements in diameters 6.3 mm up to 21mm. Lengths from 140mm to 8000mm. Supplied in different material such as EN 1.4301/1.4541/1.4404.

Cabinet heaters are used to prevent moisture and condensation in cabinets, electrical plants, electronic information boards, and automatic ticket units. Cabinet heaters are designed for optimal heat emission. The surface temperature of the heater is low, enabling a safe position near the electronic equipment. Cabinet heaters are furnished with temperature limiter and fulfil protection class IP55.

Flow-Through Heaters We produce a wide range of flow-through heaters for liquid heating and offer flexible design according to customer specifications. Different options, electrical connections and water coupling make it easy for you to find the perfect alternative for your application.

Plug Cartridges For protection of electric circuits against overloading and short circuits. Designed especially for railway carriages.

Electronic Control Systems We supply electronic control systems to meet the high demands of control and safety of the rolling stock heating devices. Our control systems are designed according to customer requirements and to ensure that safety and valid regulations are met.

Designing for the future It is of crucial importance to control the temperature of the elements in heating devices and in coming years that need will escalate with our effort to minimize energy loss and ensure effective use of the resourses of nature thus pushing for sustainable energy sources. NIBE Railway Components work actively to enhance the benefits and value added to our products following a safe, exact and superv iced temperature. In addition to large resources constantly put on equipment for new testing methods, allocating an extensive know-how within the business group, we now have our focus set on enhancing our expertise on technologies for temperature control and steering, contributing to higher degree of satisfacion to our customers, comfort to the travellers and last but not least to reducing some of the effects on our environment. www.niberailway.com

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Backer Alpe, S. de R.L. de C.V Venado Street No. 45 Col. Los Olivos, Tlahuac C.P. 13210 Mexico Tel +52-55 584 505 05 www.backeralpe.com. Backer BHV AB SE-280 10 Sösdala, Sweden Tel +46-451 661 00 [email protected] www.backer.eu Backer BHV AB/ Div. Calesco Västra Åvägen 11 SE-734 51 Kolbäck Sweden Tel +46-220 453 00 www.calescofoil.se Backer BHV AB/Div. Calesco 47 rue Maurice Flandin F-69003 Lyon France Tel +33-472 13 23 38 www.calescofoil.se Backer EHP, Inc. 4700 John Bragg Highway Murfreesboro, TN. 37127, US Tel +1-615 907 6900 www.backerehp.com Backer ELC AG Wynentalstrasse 1 CH-5723 Teufenthal Switzerland Tel +41-628 376 280 www.backerelc.ch Backer Elektro CZ a. s. Policská 444 CZ-539 01 Hlinsko Czech Republic Tel +420-469 802 524 [email protected] www.backer-elektro.cz Backer Facsa S.L. Ctra De Ribes, km 50 ES-08591 Aiguafreda Spain Tel +34-938 44 26 00 [email protected] www.backerfacsa.es

Backer Fer s.r.l. Via Statale 255 no 293 IT-440 47 Sant’ Agostino Italy Tel +39-05 32 35 00 00 [email protected] www.backerfer.com

Eltop Praha s.r.o Provoz Miretice 32 CZ-539 55 Miretice Czech Rep. Tel +420-469 344 176 [email protected] www.eltoppraha.cz

NIBE Element Sales Office France 1, Bd de lÓise, F-95030 Cergy Pontoise, Cedex Tel +33-680 410 252 www.backer.eu

Heatrod Elements Ltd. Holloway Drive Wardley Industrial Estate Worsley, Manchester M28 2DP, UK Tel +44-161 794 61 22 www.heatrod.com

Backer Heating Technologies Inc. 1390 Gateway Drive Elgin, IL 60124, USA Tel +1-877 455 8505 www.backerhti.com Backer Heating Technologies (Shenzhen) Building No. 5 Hong Hua Ling Industrial Estate LongXi Village Long Gang District, Shenzen China Tel +86-755 289 303 69 Backer OBR Sp. z.o.o. u.l. Glowackiego 39 PL-74 200 Pyrzyce Poland Tel +48-91 481 99 00 [email protected] www.backerobr.pl Danotherm Electric A/S Næsbyvej 20 DK-2610 Rødovre Denmark Tel +45-36 73 22 22 [email protected] www.danotherm.dk Danotherm Electric A/S An den Drei Hasen 4 DE-61440 Oberursel Germany Tel +49-61 71 88 77 11 www.danotherm.com

JEVI A/S Godthåbsvej 7 DK-7100 Vejle Denmark Tel +45-75 83 02 11 [email protected] www.jevi.dk

NIBE Wind Components Maserativej 4 7100 Vejle Tel: +45-75 85 78 22 www.nibewind.com Norske Backer A/S Midtbyen NO-2202 Kongsvinger Norway Tel +47-628 28 828 [email protected] www.norskebacker.no Oy Meyer Vastus AB FI-07230 Monninkylä Finland Tel +358-19 574 02 00 [email protected] www.meyervastus.fi

Loval Oy Box 112 FI-07901 Lovisa Finland Tel +358-19 517 31 www.loval.fi

REBA Div. Industrial Applications Branch of Backer Fer s.r.l. Via Parca Alto Milanese 1 IT-21052 Busto Arsizio (Mi) Italy Tel +39-0331 35 13 95 [email protected] www.backerfer.com

Lund & Sorensen Maserativej 4 DK-7100 Vejle Danmark Tel +45-75 85 78 22 [email protected] www.ls-elvarme.dk

Shel Nibe Manufacturing Co Ltd. Building No. 5 Hong Hua Ling Industrial Estate LongXi Village Long Gang District, Shenzen China Tel +86-755 289 303 69

Lund & Sorensen Beijing Representative Office Room 1704, Di Yang Tower No. H2 DongSanHuan Bei Lu Chaoyang District Beijing 100027 China Tel: +86-10 6433 3092 www.ls-windpower.cn

Sinus-Jevi Electric Heating B.B Nijverheidsweg 2 NL-1671 GC Medemblink Nehterlands Tel +31-227 549 100 www.sinusjevi.com SAN Electro Heat A/S Gillelejevej 30, Esbønderup DK-3230 Græsted Denmark Tel +45-4839 8888 [email protected] www.san-as.com  Structurgruppen AB Magasinsgatan 8C SE-434 37 Kungsbacka Sweden Tel +46-300 566 400 www.structurgroup.se  [email protected]

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