Title :
Power tracking of resonant inverter with soft-switching over full load range for induction heating applications
Author :
Lakshmi ; Saritha, P.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Electron. Eng., Jyothi Eng. Coll., Thrissur, India
Abstract :
Induction heating (IH) is nowadays widely used in domestic, industrial and even medical applications because of its advantages such as cleanliness, direct and fast heating, better efficiency etc. Advances are taking place rapidly in the technologies mainly in the power electronics section and the control used in IH. This paper analyses a voltage fed inverter with the power control strategy that allows the inverter switches to operate at zero voltage switching at a load range from 0-100%. The frequency is maintained constant and thus the switching losses are minimized. The soft-switching achieved over the entire load range improves the overall efficiency and the results are analyzed using MATLAB/Simulink.
Keywords :
induction heating; power control; resonant invertors; zero voltage switching; MATLAB; Simulink; domestic application; full load range; induction heating applications; industrial application; medical application; overall efficiency improvement; power control strategy; power electronics section; power tracking; resonant inverter; soft-switching; switching loss minimization; voltage fed inverter analysis; zero voltage switching; Capacitors; Electromagnetic heating; Inverters; Switches; Zero voltage switching; full-bridge inverter; induction heating; power tracking; zero-voltage switching;
Conference_Titel :
Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies (ICCPCT), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nagercoil
DOI :
10.1109/ICCPCT.2015.7159415
