A Single Switch Parallel Quasi Resonant Converter Topology for Induction Heating Application

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive System (IJPEDS)
Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2018, pp. 1718~1724
ISSN: 2088-8694, DOI: 10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i4.pp1718-1724  1718
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A Single Switch Parallel Quasi Resonant Converter Topology
for Induction Heating Application
V. Geetha, V. Sivachidambaranathan
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Apr 17, 2018
Revised Aug 11, 2018
Accepted Sep 12, 2018
In this paper 32 KHZ Single phase Single switch Parallel Resonant converter
topology (SSPR) using power MOSFET is simulated using MATLAB
simulink for the different duty cycle and the THD, Power with respect to
change in duty cycle is compared . The workingcoil is the combination of R,
L in parallel with C which produces the output power of 1.7KW to 3KW
with variation in duty cycle at higher value in duty cycle we get less THD
and more power. The operating frequency is selected nearer to the resonant
frequency for the improvement performance. The experimental set up of this
SSPR Inverter in the induction heating application for the domestic purpose
is implemented is depicted and this validates the implementation of quasi
resonant using IGBT for domestic applications.
Keyword:
Temperature
SSPR
THD
Power
Copyright © 2018 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
V. Geetha,
Research Scholar,
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology,
Chennai 119.
Email: geethasendray28@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
In the recent years the domestic purpose applications needs a clean environment, so people go for
preferring electric based appliances rather using a fuel for cooking. after the analysis it is predicted that
Induction Heating application provides a good performance in this automatic world. It basically works on the
electromagnetic induction principle where the heat energy is dissipated in the form of eddy current or the
hysteresis effect this magnetic hysteresis leads to joule effect from which the heat energy is utilized properly
and effectively. This fast heating, cleanness, leads to the better usage of the induction heating system in the
field of either domestic or medical. There are different inverter configuration available, basically the
comparison of full bridge, half bridge, quasi and multi inverter are discussed in [1],[2] and concluded that a
single switch inverter is best suited for domestic induction heating applications. Methodology used in this
kind of application is the important factor in making the operation successful [3],[4] i.e., modulation
technique used to trigger the switches in the circuit and duty ratio to be followed to have a better performance
in the operation of the application [5],[6]. The performance of the system is compared with various switches
like lower band gap switches and wide band gap switches followed in [7]-[9]. The arrangement of the
working coil can be series, parallel, series parallel mostly the series arrangement is used for industrial
purpose like melting, hardening, soldering, welding etc. ,parallel arrangement of the element in the coil can
be made efficient for domestic application which has lower switching frequency and output power of range 0
to 2kw [10]. A full bridge series resonant topology is simulated to verify the steady state error, fall time, rise
time, etc., in open loop and the same is been simulated with two different type of controllers such as PI, fuzzy
and the results prove that fuzzy controller is best suited to have less time constrains [11] the multi inverter
topology for induction heating application with less number of switches are discussed in [12],[13]. For multi
burner operation in the field of induction heating is depicted in [14]-[16].

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The above section discusses about the survey of the inverter part used in induction heating
application in domestic section II discusses about the description of the proposed single switch parallel
resonant topology and in section III various results of the proposed system is elaborated along with the
simulation circuit section IV discusses the simulation results and section V the comparison table and section
VI depicts experimental setup in section VII about the conclusive part.
2. DESCRIPTION OF SINGLE PHASE SINGLE SWITCH PARALLEL RESONANT INVERTER
The flow of operation of the domestic application is briefed using the following Figure 1. The usage
of the change in switch and its performance based on duty cycle is depicted in this paper.
Figure 1. Method of Operation of SSPR Inverter
The proposed system explains the advantages of using the power MOSFET is only switch in place
of the IGBT and the results of the system shows better performance and higher power and lesser THD for
higher value of the duty cycle.The operating frequency is selected such that it is nearer to resonant frequency
to reach the load needs. Here the working coil and the load are coupled magnetically and the eddy current
flows through the coil to magnetise the work piece quickly, here the work piece taken is helical in nature
specially meant for the domestic applications. The common power supply unit for any kind of induction
heating application is always the series connected load but parallel connected load also gives good results
compared to the series or series parallel.
The circuit description of the proposed system is shown in Figure 2. The utility frequency AC
supply is converted to the high frequency AC supply in the double stage operation with the use of a bridged
rectifier which converts the AC supply to the DC supply which acts as the input to the single switch resonant
inverter providing a high frequency AC output collected across the parallel connected resonant tank circuit
which acts a working coil and produces a required power for driving a inductive load.
Figure 2. Single switch parallel resonat converter
3. SIMULATION OF SINGLE SWITCH PARALLEL RESONANT NVERTER

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The simulation of the proposed single switch parallel resonant inverter circuit is carried out at a
operating frequency of 32 KHz for different duty cycle and the Simulation circuit is depicted in Figure 3. The
conventional system and the proposed system is simulated for different switching frequency and the
frequency nearer to resonant frequency is chosen to be a operating frequency and those results are also
depicted in the following figure and the comparison of the conventional and the proposed is done .the
proposed system is validating the results for various duty cycle.
The proposed system is simulated for the different duty cycle and the results are compared for THD
and power. The simulation circuit of the proposed system is shown in Figure 3. The operation of the circuit is
explained as follows ,at the initial stage the switch M is on and the coil carries a voltage of input and after
certain period of time the switch moves to the off state and the capacitor parallel to the coil proceed the
operation with its voltage and now the current and the voltage through the coil is reversed for next set of
operation. Thus the output is converted to the high frequency AC voltage to drive the coil and from which the
work piece is magnetised and the required heat is generated for the application. This operation is repeated for
various duty cycle and results are depicted.
Figure 3. Simulation Of the proposed single switch parallel resonant inverter
The simulation circuit depicted explains about the measured quantities for a single switch parallel
resonant inverter for a single switching frequency and various duty cycle for the same load. the various
output waveforms for the 32 KHZ switching frequency is depicted in Figure 4.
Figure 4 (a) VIN and IIN of proposed single switch
parallel resonant inverter for 32KHZ operating
frequency
Figure 4(b) Vout and Iout of proposed single switch
parallel resonant inverter for 32khz operating frequency
4. SIMULATION RESULTS OF THE PROPOSED CONVERTER

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The simulation of the proposed system is carried out for different duty cycle and the results are
depicted in this section
Figure 5. FFT Analysis proposed single switch
parallel resonant inverter for 50% duty cycle
Figure 6. Output power of proposed single switch
parallel resonant inverter with 50%duty cycle
The power developed in the proposed system for 50%of duty cycle is 3.013KW Total Harmonic
Distortion value was found to be 124.18%.
The power developed in the proposed system for 70% duty cycle is 3.105KW and it is viewed in
Figure 8 using MATLAB. Total Harmonic Distortion value was found to be 110.06% is clear in Figure 7.
The same simulation is repeated for 90% duty cycle, the following Figures 9 and 10 depicting the output
power and THD as 3.125KW and 108.09% the results of the proposed system depicts the variation in the
power and THD .
Figure 7. FFT Analysis proposed single switch
parallel resonant inverter for 70% duty cycle
parallel resonant inverter with 70% duty cycle

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Figure 9. FFT Analysis proposed single switch parallel
resonant inverter for 90% duty cycle
parallel resonant inverter with 90% duty cycle
The total harmonic distortion of the circuit is calculated either by power ratio nor voltage ratio or by
current ratio.Ratio between the power of all harmonics to the fundamental power.Distortion level can also be
measured with the voltage ratio and also current ratio.
THD=(Ptotal –P1 )/P1 (1)
5. COMPARISON OF RESULTS
The various results of the systems are compared and clarified and they are tabulated as follows
validating the system performance. Table 1 depicts the comparison between the various parameters with
different switches MOSFET and the IGBT and proves that usage of the switch MOSFET gives a better result
compared to IGBT for which with the same load parameters and change in the duty cycle simulation is
repeated to check for improvement in the proposed system and compares the result of the proposed system
with change in duty cycle.
The comparison chart is drawn to have a clear idea in the performance of the system viewed in
Figure 11 and 12. The chart which explains the performance of the SSPR with duty cycle and this chart
enable to know the performance.
Table 1. Comparison Table for Mosfet and IGBT
PARAMETEER IGBT MOSFET
IIN(Amp) 20 20
V IN (Volts) 220 220
I OUT (Amps) 18 22
V OUT(Volts) 180 220
THD%
50% 127.90 124.18
70% 129.80 110.66
90% 108.09 107.69
POUT(KW)
50% 1.765 3.034
70% 2.724 3.105
90% 3.094 3.124
Figure 11. Duty cycle VS THD% Figure 12. Duty cycle VS Power (KW)
6. EXPERIMENTAL SET UP
The prototype of the single switch parallel quasi resonant converter is implemented and the setup is
depicted in the following image which provided the knowledge of electromagnetic induction and the
excitation of the coil with load and without excitation is shown in Figure 13 and 14 respectively.after the
analysis and implementation a future work of half bridge inverter with parallel resonant load can be

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implemented and the results can be compared to satisfy the essential criteria for the induction heating
principle.the output of th hardware prototype depicts the joule effect and the heat transferred to the working
medium without any contact and heat produced by this effect is utilized by the load only not on the work
piece.
Figure 13. Hardware set up of the prototype without
excitation
Figure 14. Hardware set up of the prototype with
excitation
7. CONCLUSION
The paper expresses about the simulation and the experimental setup of the single phase single
switch parallel resonant inverter for domestic applications it is proved by simulation that at higher duty cycle
the power generated is more and the experimental set up is made for 32khz operating frequency thus
concluding that property of the MOSFET and IGBT is studied having lesser so that the system developed is
suited for all kinds of domestic induction heating application.
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