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Symposium: G10 - Modeling and simulation
Oral Presentation
 
 

Inter-Induction-Heating for Rapid Mold Temperature Control

Tsai Pi-Lin (1), Chen Shia-Chung (1), Liu Kwan-cyun (1)*, Hsu Tzu-Jeng (1), Yang Chiu-Lan (1)

(1) Chung Yuan Christian University - Taoyuan City - Taiwan

In recent years, composite materials have been widely used in 3C products and in the automotive industry, primarily due to their high strength, light weight, and good wear characteristics. For the high surface quality, the mold needs to maintain high temperature, making it difficult to shorten the molding cycle time. Based on this, the industry is developing new dynamic mold temperature control technology to meet the market demand for high-quality composite material processing. The first part of this study compares internal induction heating with internal electrical heating to evaluate the heating rate and confirm their benefits. In the second part, four types of coil and cooling channel arrangements were constructed to evaluate the dynamic mold temperature control technology and control system. In the third part, ANSYSŪ was used to perform the temperature field analysis of 3D base mold, and the results of the simulation and experiment were compared to verify the feasibility of the simulation. The results show that induction heating in internal heating increases the heating efficiency. Among the basic designs of the internal induction heating, the third design had the best heating results, and the fourth design had the best cooling results. These results show that the arrangement of the induction coil and the cooling channel affect the process cycle, a result also verified in the simulation. Keywords: Dynamic mold temperature control, Internal induction heating