Sistema de aquecimento indutivo integrado a um retificador de alto fator de potência

Abstract

Induction heating is a technique used in industry to get results like casting, brazing, forging and heat treatment also, application focus of this work. Induction heating occurs through electromagnetic fields induced in a metal part, which it wants to warm up. This means that there is an increase in temperature on the piece it wants to heat up due to the Joule effect, eddy current and hysteresis, among other effects. To generate the effects reported above, high power converters and frequency are required. These converters are composed in many cases by: a rectifier, filter capacitor DC Link, an inverter and a resonant circuit. This paper proposes the topology of LLC resonant circuit being switched by a full bridge inverter. Like any resonant circuit operating at near of the resonance frequencies, the currents are high and it is possible to operate with soft switching. Among some advantages of the LLC topology against other topologies such as series resonant, for example, can be mention: protection against short-circuit and easy impedance matching between the resonant circuit and the inverter. However, converters with common rectifiers have low power factor. To solve this problem, the use of a rectifier high power factor built into the converter is proposed. This rectifier is integrated into the converter through the inverter, forming a single stage high power factor induction heating system. Through an arm of the inverter is given the control of the rectifier and the converter at the same time. The technique presented results in low cost and low complexity implementation. An asymmetric PWM modulation is used with variable duty cycle to control the power system, which controls both converters at the same time.