Introduction

The presence of dangerous LPG leakage in the cars, service station or in the storage tank
environment can be detected using the Ideal Gas Sensor. This LPG gas leakage detector unit can
be easily integrated into a unit that can sound an alarm or give a visual suggestion of the LPG
concentration. The sensor has both admirable sensitivity and rapid response time. The output
of the sensor goes high as soon as the LPG sensor senses any gas leakage from the storage. This
is sensed by the IC LM 358.

Components

 LPG sensor MQ-6

 IC LM358
 Resistor 10k, 1k.
 7805 voltage regulator
 LED
 buzzer

Circuit diagram

Working

You can see the connections in the circuit diagram. Voltage divider is connected in inverting
end of LM358 (PIN 2). And non-inverting end (PIN 3) is connected to the LPG gas sensor.

When we turn ON the circuit there no gas detected and the Output of the comparator is
LOW. When we gas is detected gas sensor will high (which is connected to the non-inverting
end of comparator) gets higher than the voltage at inverting end, then the output becomes
HIGH and LED turns ON and beep the buzzer. Voltage at inverting end, which is also called
 Threshold Voltage, can be set by replacing resistors. Higher the voltage at inverting end (-),
less sensitive the sensor and Lower the voltage at inverting end (-), more sensitive the
sensor.

LM358

LM358 is an operational amplifier (Op-Amp) and in this circuit we are using it as a voltage
comparator. The LM358 has two independent voltage comparators inside it, which can be
powered by single PIN, so we can use the single IC to build two IR sensor modules. We have
used only one comparator here, which have inputs at PIN 2 & 3 and output at PIN 1. Voltage
comparator has two inputs; one is inverting input and second is non-inverting input (PIN 2 and
3 in LM358). When voltage at non-inverting input (+) is higher than the voltage at inverting
input (-), then the output of comparator (PIN 1) is high. And if the voltage of inverting input (-)
is Higher than non-inverting end (+), then output is LOW.

 Application
Homes, gas filling station, vehicles.