Open AccessModelling and Controlling of Induction Heating Unit for Induction Cooking Application
Author(s) -
Shubham Singh,
Anshul Agarwal,
Tirupathiraju Kanumuri,
Madhumita Roy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1478/1/012010
Subject(s) - induction heating , resonant inverter , inverter , control theory (sociology) , capacitor , voltage , power (physics) , power factor , rlc circuit , lc circuit , electromagnetic coil , engineering , electrical engineering , computer science , physics , control (management) , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
A study on the control methodology of voltage source inverter (VSI) fed series resonant circuit for induction heating has been done in this work with the goal that converter can be worked at about unity power factor. In this work, phase locked loop (PLL) has been accustomed to bring the converter’s switching frequency near to the natural frequency of series coil and capacitor branch of induction heater. Using this control method, the effectiveness of induction heater can be improved and necessity of input power is turned out to be less when compare to the fixed frequency operation. This control technique gives reliable operation of voltage source inverter fed circuit for varying load. Controlled phase locked loop gives increment or decrement in resonance frequency corresponding to the phase difference in voltage and current of resonant circuit. The coil of the induction heater is utilized as load in the resonant circuit of inverter. This power control procedure enables the inverter to operate near to the natural frequency for controlling power at all level. In this work, ZVS (zero-voltage switching) and ZCS (zero-current switching) condition has been obtained, and the switching losses are minimized. Pulse density modulated (PDM) power control method has been simulated to control the output power of a half bridge VSI fed induction heater.