How does Induction heating Work ?

Introduction :
Induction heating is a precise, quick, repeatable, proficient, non-contact strategy for heating metals
or some other electrically-conductive materials.
An induction heating framework comprises of an induction power supply to convert line energy to
an exchanging current and conveying it to a workhead, and a work loop for creating an
electromagnetic field inside of the curl. The work piece is situated in the curl such this field prompts
a current in the work piece, which thusly delivers heat.
The water-cooled loop is situated around or circumscribing the work piece. It doesn't contact the
work piece, and the warmth is just delivered by the actuated current transmitted through the work
piece. The material used to make the work piece can be a metal, for example, copper, aluminum,
steel, or metal. It can likewise be a semiconductor, for example, graphite, carbon or silicon carbide.
For heating non-conductive materials, for example, plastics or glass, induction can be utilized to
warm an electrically-conductive susceptor e.g., graphite, which then passes the warmth to the nondirecting material.
Induction heating discovers applications in procedures where temperatures are as low as 100C
(212F) and as high as 3000C (5432F). It is likewise utilized as a part of short heating procedures
going on for not as much as a large portion of a second and in heating procedures that stretch out
more than a while.
Induction heating is utilized both residential and business cooking, in a few applications, for
example, warmth treating, fastening, preheating for welding, melting, therapist fitting in industry,
fixing, brazing, curing, and in and in research and development.

How Does Induction Heating Work?

Induction produces an electromagnetic field in a coil to transfer energy to a work piece to be
heated. When the electrical current passes along a wire, a magnetic field is produced around that
wire.

Key Benefits of Induction :

The benefits of induction are:

Efficient and quick heating
Accurate, repeatable heating
Safe heating as there is no flame
Prolonged life of fixturing due to accurate heating
Methods of Induction Heating

Induction heating is done using two methods:

The first method is referred to as eddy current heating from the IR losses caused from the
resistivity of a work pieces material. The second is referred to as hysteretic heating, in which
energy is produced within a part by the alternating magnetic field generated by the coil modifying
the components magnetic polarity.

Hysteretic heating occurs in a component up to the Curie temperature when the materials
magnetic permeability decreases to 1 and hysteretic heating is reduced. Eddy current heating
constitutes the remaining induction heating effect.

When there is a change in the direction of electrical current (AC) the magnetic field generated fails,
and is produced in the reverse direction, as the direction of the current is reversed. When a second
wire is positioned in that alternating magnetic field, an alternating current is produced in the
second wire.

The current transmitted through the second wire and that through the first wire are proportional to
each other and also to the inverse of the square of the distance between them.

When the wire in this model is substituted with a coil, the alternating current on the coil generates
an electromagnetic field and while the work piece to be heated is in the field, the work piece
matches to the second wire and an alternating current is produced in the work piece. The IR losses
of the material resistivity of the work piece causes heat to be created in the work piece of the work
pieces material resistivity. This is called eddy current heating.

Working of an Induction Coil

With the assistance of a rotating electric field, vitality is transmitted to the work piece with a work
coil.
The rotating current passing through the coil delivers the electromagnetic field which instigates a
present going in the work piece as a mirror picture to the present going in the work coil. The work
coil/inductor is a piece of the induction heating framework that shows the viability and proficiency
of the work piece when it is warmed. Work coils are of various sorts running from complex to basic.

The helical injury (or solenoid) coil is an illustration of basic coil, which comprises of numerous
turns of copper tube twisted around a mandrel. A coil accuracy machined from strong copper and
brazed together is a sample of complex coil.