AN OVERVIEW OF APPLICATIONS OF INDUCTION HEATING

Eddy currents are normally associated with losses and heating in electrical equipments and ways to mitigate the same. But this heating can be used productively for various domestic and industrial applications. In this paper, various applications related to induction heating are discussed. Various aspects of heat treatment and metal forming using induction heating have been discussed. Various technological aspects of induction melting process involving induction furnaces for melting of ferrous metals, metals with high purity and silicon have been discussed. Induction heating finds application in food processing and in today's era, widespread application in cooking. So various aspects of induction heating-based food processing and induction cooking have also been discussed.