INDUCTION HEATING

MR. PRANIKET M. KOTAMBE1, Miss. VAISHALI I. TEMBHURNE2, Miss. PRAGATI S. KAMBLE 3, MR. GAVINDA H. RAMBHAD4, MR. SANDIP D. CHAHANDE6

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Priyadarshini J. L. College of Engineering, Nagpur Email: praniketkotambe33@gmail.com

2Department of Electrical Engineering, Priyadarshini J. L. College of Engineering, Nagpur Email: vaishalitembhurne123@gmail.com

3Department of Electrical Engineering, Priyadarshini J. L. College of Engineering, Nagpur Email: pkamble1861@gmail.com

4Department of Electrical Engineering, Priyadarshini J. L. College of Engineering, Nagpur Email: govindarambhad112@gmail.com

5Department of Electrical Engineering, Priyadarshini J. L. College of Engineering, Nagpur Email: csandip.pjlce@gmail.com

Keywords— induction heater, bearing, gear, flexibility, reliability, Microcontroller, work piece

Abstract— Induction heating is a heating method for electrically conductive materials that takes advantageof the heat generated by the eddy currents originated by means of a varying magnetic field. Since Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831, this phenomenon has been widely studied in many  applications like transformers, motors or generators‟ design. It was not until the turn of the 20th century that inductionstarted to be deeply studied as a heating method. The investigations on this field led to the construction of the first industrial induction melting equipment by the Electric Furnace Company in 1927 and the first induction hardening equipmentby Midvale Steel and Ohio Crankshaft Company some years later [1,2].