Equivalent Circuit Allowing Loss Separation Synthesized From Field Computations: Application to Induction Heating

This article presents a method to synthesize the equivalent circuit of an induction heating (IH) machine used in the hot strip mill (HSM) process. The equivalent circuit not only allows to evaluate eddy current losses in different forms, such as iron plate and coils, but also compute the transient responses in online environments. The frequency characteristic of the IH machine is effectively computed by proper orthogonal decomposition. The equivalent circuit of the IH is synthesized through curve fitting to the computed characteristics in conjunction with Tikhonov's regularization. The equivalent circuit is shown to have good accuracy and works much faster than the finite-element method. The proposed equivalent circuit is expected to be used in online control of the HSM process.