Sensorless Control of Voltage Peaks in Class-E Single-Ended Resonant Inverter for Induction Heating Rice Cooker
Energies 2021
Yongseung Oh, Jaeeul Yeon, Jayoon Kang, Iļja Galkins, Wonseok Oh, Kyumin Cho

Single-ended (SE) resonant inverters are widely used as power converters for high-pressure rice cooker induction, with 1200 V insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) being used as switching devices for kW-class products. When voltage fluctuations occur at the input stage of an SE resonant inverter, the resonant voltage applied to the IGBT can be directly affected, potentially exceeding the breakdown voltage of the IGBT, resulting in its failure. Consequently, the resonant voltage should be limited to below a safety threshold—hardware resonant voltage limiting methods are generally used to do so. This paper proposes a sensorless resonant voltage control method that limits the increase in the resonant voltage caused by overvoltage or supply voltage fluctuations. By calculating and predicting the resonance voltage through the analysis of the resonance circuit, the resonance voltage is controlled not to exceed the breakdown voltage of the IGBT. The experimental results of a 1.35 kW SE resonant inverter for a high-pressure induction heating rice cooker were used to verify the validity of the proposed sensorless resonant voltage limiting method.


Keywords
induction; heating; cooker; resonant inverters; sensorless control; resonant voltage control
DOI
10.3390/en14154545
Hyperlink
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/15/4545

Oh, Y., Yeon, J., Kang, J., Galkins, I., Oh, W., Cho, K. Sensorless Control of Voltage Peaks in Class-E Single-Ended Resonant Inverter for Induction Heating Rice Cooker. Energies, 2021, Vol. 14, No. 15, Article number 4545. e-ISSN 1996-1073. Available from: doi:10.3390/en14154545

Publication language
English (en)
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