Chaos control in DC arc furnaces powered by parallel DC-DC buck converters

Author

Lucian, Gherman ; Stela, Rusu Anghel ; Marcel, Topor ; Mezinescu, Sergiu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inf., Univ. Politeh. of Timisoara, Hunedoara, Romania

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We study the effects of chaos based control of the DC arc furnace operation. The chaos models for DC arc furnace have been proposed in several papers, but until now there is no reference to a control strategy concerning chaotic voltage variation in DC arc furnace operation. There is some practical application of chaos suppression for DC-DC converters. However the use of DC converters is subject of introduction of nonlinear unstable perturbation making difficult to control the operation and therefore the disturbances induced by the coupled system converter nonlinear load. In case of DC arc furnaces supplied by DC-DC converters some of this solution is not suitable due to the constraints imposed by the DC arc furnace operation.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; arc furnaces; delays; nonlinear control systems; DC arc furnaces; chaos control; chaos suppression; coupled system converter nonlinear load; nonlinear unstable perturbation; parallel DC-DC buck converters; Chaos; Choppers; DC-DC power converters; Delay effects; Electrodes; Furnaces; Voltage control; Chaos control; DC arc furnace; time delay;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2011 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8779-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2011.5874773

Filename

5874773