ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

At the outset, I find it my obligation to thank the Almighty God for giving
us necessary wisdom to accomplish this project.

I express my sincere thanks with high esteem and gratitude to our principal
Dr.E.Vasudevan Nampoothiri and Mr. Manoj Kumar pv, Asst. Professor &
Head of the Department of Electronics and communication for their timely help
and allowing us to utilize the facilities in the Applied Electronics and
Instrumentation department for the successful completion of this work.

I express my profound gratitude to Ms.Sarika.G, Project Co-ordinator

and Ms.Fathima Abdul Azeez, Project Guide for their advice, supervision and
patience throughout the project.

I also express my heartfelt thanks to all my teachers, friends, classmates

and my parents who have directly or indirectly made this endeavor a success.

I would like to thank everyone, who had been pillars of support and
guidance to me throughout the course of work, taking its present form.

ADERSH MS
AJINA K THOMAS
ANILA MARY ANTONY
DEEPAK M
LINCY VARGHEESE

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 ABSTRACT

LPG LEAKAGE DETECTOR circuit is a simple engineering project.

The main objective of the circuit is to detect LPG leakage anywhere. The circuit for
an LPG LEAKAGE DETECTOR is readily available in the market, but it is
extremely expensive and usually based on microcontroller. Our project is a low cost
circuit for LPG leakage detector that can be built anywhere.

At the heart of the circuit is dual comparator IC LM393. It is used to

compare two different voltages, namely reference voltage and MQ-6 gas sensor
output voltage. If the reference voltage is greater than sensor voltage output goes
high, which means there is a LPG leakage.

It is very easy to find gas leakage this circuit, which uses low cost
component and interactive way to adjust different sensitivity levels, based on
customer needs.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………..i

Abstract……………………………………………………….……...………..ii

Table of contents……………………………………………….……..…..… iii

List of figures…………………………………………………….……….......v

List of tables …………………………………………………………..……. vi

Chapter 1

Introduction…………………………………………………………..…..…....7

Chapter 2

Logic structure and diagram…………………………………….………….…8

2.1Blockdiagram……………………………………...…………......…..….8

Chapter 3

3.1Circuit diagram…………………………………..………………....…....9

3.2 List of components……………………..……..…..……..………........10

3.3 Working of lpg detector…………..…………………....….……..…...11

3.4 Construction and testing……………………..…...………...….….......12

3.5 Mq-6 lpg gas sensor ……………...………..………….……..........…..12

3.6 Step down transformer ………………..……………….........……..…13

3.7 7805 voltage regulator………………………...……………......….…..14

3.8 Dual comparator lm 393 …………...………...……………….……….15

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 3.9 Darlington transistor tip 122……………………………...….….....…..17

Chapter 4

PCB fabrication……………………………………………………....…...…18

4.1 Component layout and design…………………………………….…...…18

4.2 PCB layout design………………………………………...……..…….....18

4.3 PCB layout

4.5 Transferring PCB layout onto PCB lamination………..………..............19

4.6 Drilling-tinning…………………………………………………..…..…...19

4.7 Soldering…………………..……………………………………..............19

4.8 Components side of LPG leakage detector................................................21

Chapter 5

Results and discussions …………………………………………….....……..22

5.1 Advantages……………...……………………………………...…….....22

5.2 Feature…...…………………………………………...……...………….22

5.3 Applications…………………………………..……….....……….…......22

Chapter 6

6.1 Conclusion………………………………………………...….………......23

6.2 Future scope ……………….…………………..……………….……......23

Bibliography………………………………………………...…….……..…...24

Appendix…………………………………………………...….………..…....25

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 LIST OF FIGURES

Sl no Figure Page no

1 Functional block of LPG leakage detector 8

2 Circuit diagram 9

3 Lpg gas sensor 12

4 Step down transformer 13

5 Pin of IC7805 14

6 Circuit of IC7805 15

7 Pin of ICLM393 16

8 Transistor 17

9 PCB layout 19

10 Components side lpg leakage detector 21

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 LIST OF TABLES

Si no Table page

1 List of components 10

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