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Many types of steel are treated with heat to increase toughness and resistance to wear. Induction heating seems to be appropriate and provides several advantages in comparison with conventional techniques. In this paper, control techniques for full bridge resonant inverter aimed to induction heating are evaluated comprehensively, through simulation and experiment, and compared to each other in terms of heating rate, efficiency and input power factor, using one metal sample hardened to 1mm in depth up to 600°C, with a 400 W power supply. These techniques are implemented digitally in way to allow a high resolution power control. The simulation results obtained are satisfactory, and agree with those of the experiments. Furthermore, the study shows the control strategy based on frequency may not be sufficient, but should be associated with other control techniques in order to address appropriately the hardening process, bearing in mind processing time, efficiency and input power factor. The strategy with the input DC voltage and the pulse density modulation (PDM) controls appear to suit the surface metal treating for large temperature variation, and enable the heating process to perform well when compared to the other techniques based on phaseshift and PWM duty cycle control.

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This paper presents a new rotor position estimator for salient-pole permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSM) based on carrier signal injection. This method first uses a new way to extract the negative frequency component of the current, which contains the rotor position information. Compared to the classical approach, this method uses only one filter. It also performs an on line compensation of the phase shift of the filter used for this extraction. This method is used for sensorless field-oriented control, confirming then its effectiveness under various operating conditions.