GAS LEAKAGE

DETECTOR
 PROJECT TEAM-INTRODUCTION
S.NO ID.NO Name Role in the project

1. Documentation
2. Presentation

3. Information gathering

4. documentation
5. Information gathering

6. presentation

7. Information gathering

8. Information gathering

9. presentation

10. Information gathering

Gas leakage is a serious problem and nowadays it is observed in many places like residences,
industries, and vehicles like Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), buses, cars, etc. It is noticed that
due to gas leakage, dangerous accidents occur. The Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or propane, is
a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as fuel in many applications like homes, hostels,
industries, automobiles, and vehicles because of its desirable properties which include high
calorific value, less smoke, less soot, and meager harm to the environment. Liquid petroleum gas
(LPG) is highly inflammable and can burn even at some distance from the source of leakage.
This energy source is primarily composed of propane and butane which are highly flammable
chemical compounds. These gases can catch fire easily.
•In this paper, semiconductor sensors are used to
detect LPG gas. An MQ6 semiconductor sensor is used.
Sensitive material of the MQ-6 gas sensor is SnO2,
which has lower conductivity in clean air. When the
target combustible gas exists, the sensor conductivity
increases along with the rising gas concentration. The
MQ6 gas sensor has a high sensitivity to Propane,
Butane and LPG, and response to Natural gas.
•This system is based on the Arduino UNO R3 and MQ-6 gas sensor.
When the sensor detects gas in the atmosphere, it will give digital
output 1 and if gas in not detected the sensor will give digital output 0.
Arduino will receive the sensor output as digital input. If the sensor
output is high, then the buzzer will start tuning along with the LCD
that will show that “Gas detected: Yes”. If the sensor output is low then
buzzer will not be tuning, and the LCD will show that “Gas detected:
No”. The buzzer most commonly consists of a number of switches or
sensors connected to control unit that determines which button was
pushed or whether a preset time has lapsed, and usually illuminates a
light on the appreciate button or control panel, and sounds a warning
in the form of a continuous or intermittent buzzing or beeping sound
•For the design of a sensor-based gas leakage detector and
alarm system the following hardware components are
required. Table 1 lists the list of required hardware
opponents, quantity and price in Bangladeshi Taka. The
gas detector system is very cheap and it will cost only 917
BD Taka. The device is portable, light weight, user friendly
and efficient with multi-functional features. In Figure 2,
some important components that are needed to design the
gas leakage detection and alert system are presented.
(3). Results and Analysis :

The Proteus Design Suite is a proprietary software tool suite used primarily for electronic design automation. The
software is used mainly by electronic design engineers and technicians to create schematics and electronic prints
for manufacturing printed circuit boards. Figure 3 shows the circuit diagram that was designed using Proteus
libraries. This system is based on Arduino UNO R3 and MQ-6 gas sensor. When the sensor detects gas in
atmosphere, it will give a digital output of 1 and if gas is not detected the sensor will give a digital output of 0.
Arduino will take the sensor output as the digital input. If sensor output is high, then the buzzer will start
tuning and the LCD will show that “Gas detected: Yes”. If sensor output is low then the buzzer will not be tuning,
LCD will show that “Gas detected: No”. The detector incorporates a MQ-6 sensor (with gas detection range of
300–10,000 ppm) as the LPG gas sensor, PIC16F690 microcontroller as the control unit, LCD for displaying gas
concentration, a buzzer as an alarm and a number of LEDs to indicate the gas leakage status. The
microcontroller senses the presence of a gas when the voltages signal from the MQ-6 sensor goes beyond a
certain level and gives an audiovisual alarm
The system detects the level of gas in the air that exceeds the safety level it will activate the alarm
which includes the buzzer to alert the users at home of the abnormal condition and to take any
necessary action. The most tell-tale sign of a leak is the smell of gas in the home. However, in the
case of a carbon monoxide leak, there are also particular physical symptoms you may suffer from if
there is a leak. The output result of this paper is that the leakage will be detected and stopped
within 2 s after the leakage starts. This system can even detect the level of gas leakage. This is an
efficient method for automatically detecting and controlling the gas leakage. Moreover, the fire
accidents are also prevented by switching off the power supply. The idea for gas detection and
control can be implemented at a large scale for various industries.
(4).Future Work :

Overall, software and hardware parts of the systems have been developed and tested by introducing a small amount of LPG
near gas sensor module. The authors of this paper are currently working to include multi functions with this device. One of
the notable future functions of this system is to add a sub system where wastage of gas and the uses of gas can be monitored
using this system. The system is flexible as a greater number of sensors and relays can be added to it according to the whole
LPG supply setup in those premises. The author is adding more software based intelligent functions with this system. This is
an automatic gas detection, control and alert system. In future this system will have a feature where it can notify the
emergency services if any accidents happen. A mobile app and web-based app for real time monitoring also will be added. In
the user app for this system many smart features will be added. The overall features will make the system more safe for the
users. The system will be optimized for use in many places like the car, the home, industries and many other places. After
designing the final prototype with smart multifunctional features, the system will be implemented in real life scenarios as a
pilot project. A survey will be done soon before using the system and another one will be done after implementing the system
to discover the KPI. Summarizing all the results, finding and analyzing a research article will be done and author has plans
to submit itto the MDPI sensors journal for review
5. Conclusions:

The design of a sensor-based automatic gas leakage detector with an alert and control system has been
proposed and discussed in this paper. This is a low-cost, low power, lightweight, portable, safe, user friendly,
efficient, multi featured and simple system device for detecting gas. Gas leakage detection will not only
provide us with significance in the health department but it will also lead to raise our economy, because
when gas leaks it not only contaminates the atmosphere but also wastage of gases will hurt our economy.
The proposed system will cost only USD 10 which is easily affordable even for poor people. In the open
literatures it is noticed that much work has not been done for a smart gas detection system. In future, more
advanced features will be integrated with this system which will provide users with more safety and
relaxation. The proliferation of handheld devices has led to developments in the field of smart gas sensors,
which has considerably widened their scope of application. The need for ensuring safety in workplaces is
expected to be the key driving force for the market over the coming years