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HISTORY
Induction furnace works on the principle of
induction heating.
The roots of induction heating go back to
the very beginning of electromagnetism.
Heating by EDDY CURRENTS or
“FOUCAULT CURRENTS” was discovered
in 1855 when LEON FOUCAULT found
that a significant additional torque was
necessary to keep the copper disc rotating
when it was placed into the permanent
magnetic field and that the disc was heated
by the induced currents.
At the time there was no mathematical basis
for the theoretical description of this effect and
it was studied experimentally, mainly in the
application to magnetic brakes.
This kind of induction was used and continues
to be used occasionally for heating of the fast
moving strips and rotating cylinders.
Recently, this very old phenomenon became
the subject of an intensive study for heating of
the aIuminium cylinders rotating in the very
strong field of a superconductive magnet.
The first practical attempts to use induction
currents generated by the alternating field for
the heating purposes were made in 1891-92.
Theoretical and experimental studies of eddy
current generation started even earlier with
main reference to magnetic cores.
A big contribution was made by H.HERTZ,
O.HEAVISIDE,J.J THOMSON,J.A. EWING
and others.
Studying EM processes in the magnetic
cores, sir J. EWING described a coined the
word HYSTERESIS.
It is well known that magnetic field in
induction systems may be accurately
described by MAXWELL equation.
It is worth to remember that they were not
created by Maxwell in the present elegant
form.
Modification of these equations must be
credited to OLIVER HEAVISIDE, a brilliant
scientist.
After several attempts of scientists, the
Induction furnace was designed by professor
E. NORTHRUP .
He not only built famous channel Induction
furnace but also high frequency furnace with
mercury arc power supply.
Definition:
An induction furnace is an electric
furnace in which the heat is applied by
induction heating of metal that uses
electric current to melt a metal.
Once molten ,the high frequency
magnetic field can also be used to stir
the hot metal , which is useful in
ensuring that alloying conditions are fully
mixed into melt
Metals which are melted in an Induction
furnace include iron and steel, copper,
aluminum and precious metals because it is
a clean and noncontact process .
It can be used in vacuum or inert
atmosphere.
Vacuum furnaces make use of induction
heating for production of special steels and
other alloys that would oxidize if heated in
the presence of air.
INDUCTION HEATING
Induction heating makes use of a
transformer effect
Induction heating is a non-contact form of
heating
Induction heating is the process of heating
an electrically conducting object(usually
metals) by electromagnetic induction ,
through heat generated in the object using
eddy currents.
Non-magnetic materials make use of only
eddy currents while in magnetic materials,
hysteresis losses are in additional.
Induction heating relies on
the unique characteristics
of radio frequency (RF)
energy - that portion of the
electromagnetic spectrum
below infrared and
microwave energy. Since
heat is transferred to the
product via electromagnetic
waves, the part never
comes into direct contact
with any flame, the inductor
itself does not get hot (see
Figure ), and there is no
product contamination.
When properly set up, the
process becomes very
repeatable and
controllable. Thus it
becomes a noncontact
process.
Principle of induction heating is mainly based
on two important well known phenomenon:
1. electromagnetic induction
2. joule heating effect
Electro-Magnetic induction