Self-started voltage-source series-resonant converter for high-power induction heating and melting applications

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 518-525

  Jain, Praveen K ^a   Espinoza, José R ^b   Dewan, Shashi B ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Induction heating; Self starting inverter; Seriesresonant inverter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUCTION HEATING; MELTING; POWER CONVERTERS;

SELF STARTING INVERTERS; SERIES RESONANT INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0032069419     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.673722     Document Type: Article

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