AIP Advances (Dec 2019)

A study on de-icing for railway turnouts using 250kHz-200W-class induction heating system

  • Hyeong-Seok Oh,
  • Chan-Bae Park,
  • Seung-Hwan Lee,
  • Jae-Bum Lee,
  • Tae-Hyung Kim,
  • Hyung-Woo Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5129857
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 12
pp. 125229 – 125229-6

Abstract

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In this paper, to complement the capability of the existing heating system using an electric-heating wire for melting snow and ice in railway turnouts, 250kHz-200W-class Induction Heating (IH) system was designed. The IH system consists of the resonant inverter and the IH device. In order to perform the electric circuit, the electromagnetic field, and the thermal analysis, the Multi-Physics analysis for IH system was derived. In addition, IH system was compared with the existing heating system.