A novel contactless, feedbackless and sensorless power delivery link to electromagnetic levitation melting system residing in sealed compartment

The paper presents practical considerations and guidelines for designing an improved-efficiency con-tactless inductive power transfer link, delivering DC power in step-down mode to an electromagnetic levitation melting system residing in a sealed compartment. The proposed arrangement employs none-series compensated inductive power transfer link operating at the so-called load-independent-voltage-output frequency, allowing feedback-less and sensor-less design. However, the output voltage of a system operating at such frequency remains influenced by the load to some extent, residing within a certain range with boundary values (minimum and maximum) corresponding to maximum (rated) and minimum load, respectively. Consequently, the proposed contactless power delivery system is first analyzed using both first harmonic approximation (frequency-domain) based approach and differential equations (time-domain) based method to obtain corresponding output voltage bounds. Then, coil-to-coil efficiency and optimal load matching factor are determined. Comparison with both typically uti-lized symmetrical series-series and recently proposed series-none compensation topologies reveals the superiority of none-series compensation topology in terms of coil-to-coil efficiency for the whole range of coupling coefficients. Simulations and experiments of 400 V, 1 kW none-to-series compensated inductive wireless power transfer link, delivering contactless energy to a 250 V electromagnetic levi-tation melting system, demonstrate excellent matching and accurately validate the presented analysis. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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The paper discusses the design and performance of a contactless inductive power transfer system, introducing a novel topology with none-series compensation that demonstrates superior efficiency and performance. Through simulations and experiments, it is shown that the system design can effectively achieve the goals outlined in the theoretical analysis.