SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTATION OF THE ARC WELDING INVERTER USING THE SOFT SWITCHING TECHNIQUE

摘要

The FB-ZVZCS-PWM converter is realized by the way of subjoining block-capacitor into the FB-ZVS-PWM converter.At the freewheeling interval, the primary current is attenuated fast to zero and maintained.And then, power device of the static leg becomes a zero-current-switch (ZCS), power device of the shifted leg becomes a zero-voltage-switch(ZVS).Thus, on one hand IGBT (Insulated gate bipolar transistor) with tail current can be easily used in full-bridge soft-switching converter; on the other hand additional circuiting energy is greatly reduced.At the same time, less duty cycle loss, lower secondary parasitic resonance, wider soft-switching load range can be achieved.Based on the existing component models in the Pspice software package, a combined model of IGBT is established, in which a non-linear capacitor is introduced to replace the parasitic capacitor.Using this model, computerized simulation is conducted for the FB-ZVZCS-PWM soft-switching converter, the switching and energy-transferring characteristics of the power device are analyzed.Finally, based on the achievement above, a 10 kW arc welding inverter with FB-ZVZCS-PWM converter is deve- loped.The simulation results are testified by experiments.It is proved that by adopting appropriate models, computerized simulation is an effective and useful tool for the development of the arc welding inverter.