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DESIGN AND POWER QUALITY ANALYSIS OF

HIGH FREQUENCY SERIES RESONANT
INVERTER FOR INDUCTION FURNACE
Rashmi Y R Rajeev B R
Department Of Electrical And Electronics Engineering Department Of Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Siddaganga Institute of Technology Siddaganga Institute of Technology
Tumakuru, INDIA Tumakuru, INDIA
[email protected] [email protected]

Abstract— Now a day’s energy crisis is one of the major issue, in This paper aims to propose fast and efficient high
order to utilize the available power in efficient manner different frequency induction heating for high temperature application.
technologies are improving among those high frequency The block diagram of overall system is shown in Fig.1.
induction heating is also one. In most of the engineering
applications we found induction heating is a powerful technique
for providing high temperature to several applications such as
steel melting, soldering, cooking etc. This paper proposes a high
frequency resonant inverter for fast, efficient, precise and non-
contact method for heating metals. Boost converter maintain the
dc link voltage to lower value and improve the power quality. To
provide high temperature within a short period, induction
furnace is made to operate at resonant frequency, because at
resonant frequency current is amplified, which keeps the reactive
power low and allow heating the work piece with large current.
The circuit is designed and simulated using PSIM.

Keywords—Eddy current heating; hysteresis heating; high

frequency transformer; skin effect.

I. INTRODUCTION

High frequency induction heating is a efficient

technique to produce high temperature to several applications
[1]. Nowaday’s Induction heating becomes more popular
because of its efficient, fast, safe, non-contact and noise less
heating operation.Depending on the geometry and material of II. BASICS OF INDUCTION HEATING
work piece appropriate frequency is selected. High frequency
operation reduces the size of passive components(R, L&C),
transformer and filters and also reduces the switching There are two methods of heating, first method is
losses.Resonant techniques have been developed at higher eddy current heating, it is due to current flowing in the
frequencies and hence nearly pure sinusoidal waveforms are materialand resistivity of the material i^2r losses occurs this
obtained and hence harmonics and noise is reduced. The causes the temperature rise in the work piece material. The
material of the work piece is one of the following metals-steel, second method is hysteresis heating it is due to coil is
copper, aluminum or semiconductor such as carbon, graphite subjected to alternating magnetic field created by changing the
etc [5]. magnetic polarity of the coil [2]. Hysteresis heating created
depending on temperature level, hysteresis heating will
decrease when the magnetic permeability of the material

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decreases [3]. The induction heating resulted from eddy

current and hysteresis heating is shown in Fig.2.
The operating frequency of the heating determined by
level of heat to be generated in the work piece and material.
The different operating frequencies result in a phenomenon
known as the “skin effect”. The higher operating frequency
causes the shallower the skin, while the lower frequency
provides the depth in the skin these effects are shown in
Fig.3(a) and 3(b) respectively [4]. Figure 2. Circuit of work

1-phase isolation transformer is used to isolate full bridge

rectifier from supply. Rectifier provides Dc voltage +Vm
during positive half cycle of (D1&D2 are ON) and –Vm
during negative half cycle of (D3&D4 are ON). Boost
converter boost the voltage up to 440V and then given to
series resonant inverter. High frequency transformer operates
at 20KHZ-100’sKHZ, provides the current to the load and
load current is controlled by PI controller for efficient
operation. The resonant inverter operates in four following
modes.

Figure2. Basic of induction heating

Figure 3. Mode 1: Switch Q1 and Q3 turn on

Figure 3(a). Low frequency induction heating

Figure 4. Mode 2: Switch Q1 and Q3 turn off

Figure 1(b). High frequency induction heating

III. THE OPERATION OF INDUCTION HEATING

Figure 5. Mode 3: Switch Q2 and Q4 turn on
The circuit diagram of proposed system is shown in Fig.4.

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Figure 6. Mode 4: Switch Q2 and Q4 turn off

Figure 9. Boost converter output voltage

A. DESIGN
Supply: V 1 230V , f 50HZ .
N1 N2 1
Transformer:
N 2 / N1 V 2 / V 1
Full bridge rectifier: 2Vm / –

Full bridge inverter: Vin Vout 230V . Figure 10. Boost converter inductor current

High frequency transformer: N1 9, N 2 1.

Q 200, fr 100KHZ .
Resonant tank: L Q * R  / wr
C 1/ wr ^ 2 / L
LOAD: The value of resistance and inductance of the load
depends on materials we are used for melting and temperature
rise also depends on property of the material because different Figure 11. Inverter output voltage
materials having different melting points. Here 2kW induction
heating system operates at100 kHz.

IV. SIMULATION RESULTS

Figure 12. Load current

V.CONCLUSION
Figure 7. Circuit of high frequency induction heating High frequency induction heating is a more efficient, fast
and eco friendly heating. Inductive loads have lagging power
factor this drawback is overcome by using capacitor banks and
we can achieve nearly unity power factor and hence size,
space and cost of the system is reduced.

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Figure 8. Rectifier output voltage
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