A PROJECT REPORT

ON
LPG GAS LEAKAGE DETECTOR
Submitted for partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
IN
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
BATCH NO:14
G. BHARATH (20641A0453)
G. RANJITH (20641A0454)
G. SANDEEP KUMAR (20641A0455)
G. SAI GANESH (20641A0456)
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF
DR. HEMANTH GUPTHA
(PROFESSOR)

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 VAAGDEVI COLLEGE OF ENGINNERING
(Autonomous, Affiliated to JNTUH, NACC ‘A’ Grade and NBA Accredited)
BOLLIKUNTA, WARANGAL -506005
2021-2022

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the project work entitled “LPG GAS LEAKAGE
DETECTOR” is a bonafide work carried out by G. BHARATH (20641A0463),
G. RANJITH (20641A0464), G. SANDEEP KUMAR (20641A0465) and G.
SAI GANESH (20641A0456) in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
award of degree Bachelor of technology in Electronics and Communication
Engineering from Vaagdevi college of Engineering (Autonomous) during the
academic year 2021-2022.

Dr . HEMANTH GUPTHA DR .M. Shashidhar

Professor Head of the Department
Project Guide

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 DECLARATION
We declare that the work reported in the project entitled “LPG GAS LEAKAGE
DETECTOR” is a record of work done by us in the partial fulfilment for the
award of degree Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication
Engineering, Vaagdevi college of Engineering (Autonomous), Affiliated to
JNTUH, Accredited by NBA, under the guidance of Dr . HEMANTH GUPTHA
Professor, ECE department. We hereby declare that this project work bears no
resemblance to any other project submitted at Vaagdevi College of Engineering
or any other university/college for the award of the degree. G. BHARATH
(20641A0453) G. RANJITH (20641A0454) G. SANDEEP KUMAR
(20641A0455) G. SAI GANESH (20641A0456).

G. BHARATH (20641A0453)
G. RANJITH (20641A0454)
G. SANDEEP KUMAR (20641A0455)
G. SAI GANESH (20641A0456)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The development of the project though it was an arduous task, it has been made
by the help of many people. We are pleased to express our thanks to the people
whose suggestions, comments, criticisms greatly encouraged us in betterment of
the project. We would like to express our sincere gratitude and indebtedness to
my project Guide Dr. HEMANTH GUPTHA, Professor, for his valuable
suggestions and interest throughout the course of this project. We would like to
express our sincere thanks and profound gratitude to Dr. K. Prakash, principal
of Vaagdevi College of Engineering, for his support, guidance and
encouragement in the course of our project. We are also thankful to the Head of
the Department Dr. M. Shashidhar, Associate Professor for providing
excellent infrastructure and a nice atmosphere for completing this project
successfully. We are highly thankful to the Project Coordinators for their
valuable suggestions, encouragement and motivations for completing this
project successfully. Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our
families for their support through the work. We sincerely acknowledge and
thank all those who gave directly or indirectly their support in completion of
this work. G.BHARATH (20641A0453) G.RANJITH (20641A0454) G.
SANDEEP KUMAR (20641A0455) G.SAI GANESH(20641A0456)

G. BHARATH (20641A0453)
G. RANJITH (2064A0454)
G. SANDEEP KUMAR (20641A0455)
G.SAI GANESH (20641A0456)

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page no.
Abstract 7
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION 8
1.1 Objective 8
1.2 . Methodology 9
1.3 Contributions 10
CHAPTER.II
LITERATURE SURVEY 11
CHAPTER III
SYSTEM DESIGN 12
CHAPTER IV
IMPLEMENTATION 13
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION & FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS 14

REFERENCES 15

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 2.LIST OF FIGURES
Fig.1.CIRCUIT DIAGRAM 12
Fig.2. OUTPUT OF THE PROJECT 12

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 ABSTRACT
Home fires have been taking place frequently and the threat to human lives and
properties is growing in recent years. Liquid petroleum gas (LPG) is highly
inflammable and can burn even at some distance from the source of leakage.
Most fire accidents are caused because of a poor-quality rubber tube or the
regulator is not turned off when not in use. Therefore, developing the gas
leakage alert system is very essential. Hence, this paper presents a gas leakage
alert system to detect the gas leakage and to alarm the people onboard.
Keywords: Liquid petroleum gas, Gas sensor, Leakage

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 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Gas leakage leads to various accidents resulting in both material loss and human
injuries. The risk of explosion, firing, suffocation are based on their physical
properties such toxicity, flammability, etc. The number of deaths due to
explosion of gas cylinders has been increasing in recent years. The reason for
such explosion is due to substandard cylinders, old valves, worn out regulators
and lack of awareness in handling gas cylinders. The LPG or propane is a
flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as fuel in many applications like
homes, hostels, industries, automobiles, vehicles because of its desirable
properties which include high calorific value, less smoke, less soot, and meager
harm to the environment. Natural gas is another widely used fuel in homes.
Both gases burns to produce clean energy, however there is a serious problem
of their leakage. Being heavier than air, these gases do not disperse easily. It
may lead to suffocation when inhaled and may lead to explosion . Due to the
explosion of LPG, the number of deaths has been increased in recent years. To
avoid this problem there is a need for a system to detect the leakage of LPG.
Gas leak detection is the process of identifying potentially hazardous gas leaks
by means of various sensors . Several designs of LPG detection and alert system
have been proposed in the literature. Apeh et al. designed kitchen gas leakage
detection and automatic gas shut off system . T.Soundaryaet al. presented the
cylinder LPG gas leakage detection system . Wireless and GSM technology
based gas detectors have also been proposed. This paper presents a LPG leakage
detection and alert system to avoid fire accidents and to provide house safety.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the LPG
leakage detection and alert system and Section 3 concludes the paper.
1.1 Objective :
The vision of the product is to detect the LPG GAS LEAKAGE when the gas
leakages . when the gas leakages from the cylinder the busser will ON and we
should alert from the leakage . we should turn off the cylinder.

1.2 Methodology:

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Fig.1. METHODOLOGY OF LPG GAS LEAKAGE DETECTOR

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1.3 CONTRIBUTION
Table no1: BUDGET
COMPONENTS COST
Printed circuit board 20
Connecting wires 15
Integrated circuit 10
Diodes 5
Resistors 10
Sensar 100
Buzzer 20

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 CHAPTER.II
LITERATURE SURVEY
A number of reviews on the subject of gas leakage detection techniques were
done in the past either as part of research papers/technical reports on a certain
leak detection method and other gas related subjects. Ch. Manohar Raju and N.
Sushma Rani, 2008; they introduce an android based automatic gas detection
and indication robot. They proposed prototype depicts a mini mobile robot
which is capable to detect gas leakage in hazardous places. Whenever there is
an occurrence of gas leakage in a particular place the robot immediately read
and sends the data to android mobile through wireless communication like
Bluetooth. We develop an android application for android based smart phones
which can receive data from robot directly through Bluetooth. The application
warns with an indication whenever there is an occurrence of gas leakage and we
can also control the robot movements via Bluetooth Journal of VLSI Design and
Signal Processing Volume 2 Issue 3 3 Page 1-10 © MAT Journals 2016. All
Rights Reserved by using text commands as well as voice commands. The
previous mobile robots are based on heterogeneous technologies like GSM,
GPS, internet based etc., but the main disadvantage of those prototypes were the
absence of communication in particular areas. So, with the rapid developments
and tremendous changes in technology we have lots of techniques to eradicate
previous problems. Wireless communication protocols play a vital role in
present trends. Bluetooth, WI-Fi, Zigbee etc., we use one of the best feature of
smart phone, i.e., the Bluetooth technology to control and monitor parameters
driven by a robot. Fig. 1: Robot Prototype . They introduce a robot and mobile
application for In the meantime, the system prototype has imposingly
demonstrated its use and capability in intensive series of tests. The drive unit,
the navigation system and, therefore, the complementary sensor systems
performed superbly throughout the tests. The robot facilitates independent gas
detection and leak localization in sites that are otherwise troublesome to access.
Moreover, it helps to avoid mistreatment of human inspectors in probably
dangerous environments. However, before readying in industrial settings, more
development is needed and in fact legal problems should be processed before
readying in business settings.

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 CHAPTER III
SYSTEM DESIGN

Circuit diagram

Output of the project

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 CHAPTER IV
IMPLEMENTATION
The LPG leakage detection and alert system presented in this section is a simple
as shown in Figure 1, yet reliable. It is battery operated and hence portable. It is
designed in such a way that it can also be operated with ac power supply. To
support the latter case, it has a bridge rectifier with a capacitor filter. This is
followed by a regulator designed with IC7805 which provides +5V regulated
power supply. Figure 1: LPG leakage detection and alert system To detect the
LPG, MQ-6 gas sensor is employed. This sensor can be operated at +5V. The
sensitivity of this sensor is very high and it has quick response time. It can LPG
Gas Leakage Detection and Alert System 1097 detect the LPG concentration in
the range of 200-10000ppm. The gas sensing layer of this sensor is made of Tin
Dioxide (SnO2) and gold (Au) electrodes. The output of the gas sensor is given
to LM358 dual operational amplifier where it is compared with the threshold
value for gas density which is set using preset potentiometers and amplified. If
the sensed voltage is greater than the preset threshold voltage, the operational
amplifier output fires the driver circuit for LED and Buzzer. As a result, the
LED will glow and the buzzer starts to produce alarm sound.

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 CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS
Gas leakage leads to severe accidents resulting in material losses and human
injuries. Gas leakage occurs mainly due to poor maintenance of equipments and
inadequate awareness of the people. Hence, LPG leakage detection is essential
to prevent accidents and to save human lives. This paper presented LPG leakage
detection and alert system. This system triggers LED and buzzer to alert people
when LPG leakage is detected. This system is very simple yet reliable.

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