感應加熱技術是二十世紀初才開始應用於工業界,由於它具有加熱速度快、安全性高、產品質量好、幾乎無環境污染等許多優點,而得到迅速的發展。另一方面,隨著半導體元件製作技術的進步,反流器上的功率開關能夠操作在更高頻率的範圍,使得高頻感應加熱裝置具備了輕、薄、短、小、效率高的特色。 本論文的主要目標在建立一個以單晶片TMS320C240微處理器為基礎的數位化高頻感應加熱器。此數位化高頻感應加熱器已將切換頻率提高至100kHz,減短加熱過程所需的時間,並使用零電壓切換相移式脈波寬度調變技術,降低功率開關元件之切換損失、切換應力及電磁干擾。有鑑於加工物件在加熱過程中,其本身的電氣特性會隨之而改變,致使共振頻率亦隨著加熱時溫度之變化而變動。所以利用變頻控制技術來使驅動頻率追隨共振頻率,促使系統在運轉時的效率隨時保持於最佳狀態。同時,為了能夠調整輸出功率,乃藉由脈波寬度調變控制技術來改變輸出電壓的大小,達成此一目標。 最後,將所製作的高頻感應加熱器配上不同規格的加熱線圈及操作在不同頻率下,進行實際的量測及探討,並驗證此零電壓切換技術的確提高了系統的整體效率。
Since the early twentieth century, induction heating have been widely used and rapidly developed the industrial applications because of their distinctive advantages such as high-speed heating, safety, high quality, cleanliness, and etc.. In addition to this, with tremendous advances in the latest power semiconductor devices permiting switches of inverters to operate under high frequencies, the induction heating systems have become light, compact, and efficient. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the application of a single chip, TMS320C240, microprocessor to a fully digital high frequency induction heating system. By using the phase-shifted full-bridge zero-voltage-switched PWM techniques, this system can reduce switching loss, component stress, and electromagnetic interferences of power semiconductor devices. In induction heating applications, because the electrical characteristics of the workpieces will change in the processing, the circuit resonant frequency must be changed in accordance. Hence, the variable frequency control technique is used for tracking the resonant frequency to keep the system operating at the optimal condition. The Pulse-Width-Modulated (PWM) is used for regulating the duty-ratio to control the output power. Finally, this implemented high frequency induction heating system incorporating with different types of heating coils and operating under different frequencies is tested for analyzing. Experimental results show that the ZVS PWM technique can improve the efficiency of this system.