Institute of Aeronautical Engineering

(Autonomous)

Department of Electronics and communication Engineering

LPG GAS LEAKAGE DETECTION USING IOT

STUDENT:K.SREENU
19951A04H3 Dean of ECE:
Dr.V.Padmanabhareddy
Institute of aeronautical engineering,
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
 Abstract

 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is most widely used all over the world for heating,
cooking, vehicle fuel, and so many other fueling purposes.
LPG is a highly flammable gas and leakage of LPG occurs major accidents. This paper
approaches a smart technique for monitoring and detection leakage of LP Gas using IoT.
In this research, a smart electronic system is developed for monitoring the gas level,
This paper present an IoT based system for detection (LPG), which is commonly used as
cooking gas at home, in order to prevent leakage. NodeMCU(ESP-8266) is used as the
controller of this system where it processes the data of gas concentration and flame
occurrence from MQ-5 sensors and Flame sensors respectively, and decides on the
action to be taken by the system to activate prevention devices.
Blynk application is used as the platform to notify the user when a gas leakage has
occurred, detection of gas and control the fire prevention devices installed along with the
system. You can monitor the gas level or leakage from your smartphone. This system
can trigger an alarm if the gas leakage is found and also on the exhaustor fan
automatically. It’s a NodeMCU based low-cost smart system to overcome accidents and
gas leakage.
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Introduction

 LPG is available almost everywhere to fulfill household needs and industrial demands. It’s
mainly a mixture of propane and butane which are extremely flammable.
 A small leak of LPG can occur heavy damage to humans and infrastructures. LPG is heavier
than air and cause of suffocation after inhaling. Human safety has always a prior concern. To
prevent gas leakage, it’s important to continuously monitor of LPG supply. Internet of Things
(IoT) technology can handle these tasks sophisticatedly.
 This paper approaches a simplified and effective device for detecting and monitoring LPG
detection. This device can be used in any place where LPG is used. A NodeMCU development
board is used as a controller. MQ5, gas sensors are used for LPG detection. Dht11 sensor is
used for monitoring the temperature and humidity.
 All the sensor data are uploaded on a web server. Users can access this data from anywhere
if he has internet access or without internet within the NodeMCU wifi range free at cost. the
exhaustor fan automatically on if LPG leakage is detected. The system also triggers a buzzer
alarm to aware of the people. This simplified device is portable and can be implemented in
house and industrial sector for monitoring LPG.
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 EXISTING METHOD

Here we have adapted new technology IOT (Internet of Things) to get fastest
notification of gas leakage.. We will also use a website or application under the
IOT technology to get fastest response from the module. The other module and
things which are used in this paper is microcontroller, ​LED for indication, a
buzzer to notify local peoples. And MQ 5 or MQ 6 gas sensor module to sense
the gas leakage.

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 Problem defined

• If the LPG gas leaks, the sensor will detect it on the LCD display and a buzzer will
sound to inform the surrounding area. if there are no persons in the vicinity of the
buzzer or the area The leakage continues to emit gas. The buzzer will sound and the
display will show that there is a problem with this equipment.

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 Proposed
Click to edit Master title style Method

IoT based system for leakage Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). NodeMCU is used
as the controller of this system where it processes the data of gas concentration
and flame occurrence from MQ-5 sensors and decides on the action to be taken
by the system to activate prevention devices. Blynk application is used as the
platform to notify the user when a gas leakage has occurred, detection . And
exhaust fan on automatically

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Hardware used

• 1. Node MCU (ESP-8266)

• 2. MQ-5 Gas sensor
• 3. Buzzer
• 4. L298N motor
• 5. jumper wires
• 6. Led
• 7. Exhaust Fan (5v or 12v)
• 8. HW battery

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Node MCU (ESP-8266) :

• NodeMCU is an open-source Lua based firmware and development board specially

targeted for IoT based Applications. It includes firmware that runs on the ESP8266 Wi-Fi
SoC from Espressif Systems, and hardware which is based on the ESP-12 module.

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MQ-5 sensor :

• Gas Sensor(MQ5) module is useful for gas leakage detection (in home and industry).
It is suitable for detecting H2, LPG, CH4, CO, Alcohol. Due to its high sensitivity and
fast response time, measurements can be taken as soon as possible. The sensitivity
of the sensor can be adjusted by using the potentiometer.

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BUZZER :

• A buzzer or pager is AN audio signaling device, which can be mechanical, mechanical

device, or electricity (Piezo for short). lt has 2 pins in it. It is easy construction and
low worth create it usable in varied applications like car/truck reversing indicator,
computers, decision bells etc. It is that the phenomena of generating electricity
once mechanical pressure is applied to sure materials and also the other way
around is additionally true

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Software Used :

• 1Arduino IDE : This software can also be used for ESP8266 by installing the required
libraries. Arduino IDE is an open-source software, designed by Arduino.cc and mainly
used for writing, compiling & uploading code to almost all Arduino Modules. It is an
official Arduino software, making code compilation too easy that even a common person
with no prior technical knowledge can get their feet wet with the learning process. It is
available for all operating systems i.e. MAC, Windows, Linux and runs on the Java
Platform that comes with inbuilt functions and commands that play a vital role in
debugging, editing and compiling the code. Each of them contains a microcontroller on
the board that is actually programmed and accepts the information in the form of code.

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Flow chart implementation:
 

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Experiments and Evaluation

• We conducted our experiment using ESP8266 NodeMCU and MQ-5 Sensor .The
method is cost effective. the MQ-5 sensors connections are analog( A0 to A0 ), VCC
to VIN,GND to GND of ESP8266 NodeMCU .
• LED 1 connected positive to D4 negative to ground of breadboard. LED 2 connected
positive to D5 negative to ground of breadboard .Buzzer connected positive to D3
negative to ground of breadboard .
• L298N motor connected IN 1to D1,IN 2 toD2 and EN 1 to D0 (enable pin 1 of drive).
L298N motor connected to Exhaust Fan and HW battery.
• The circuit is then connected to the laptop via port and the code is written in Arduino
IDE after installing ESP8266 libraries. The code is verified and uploaded to the
ESP8266 microcontroller .

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System Design

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 The gas is leakage which is indicated
No gas is leakage which is indicated with red LED ,the exhaust fan on and
with green LED the buzzer alert.

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Results

 Blynk application is used as the platform to notify the user when a gas leakage
has occurred, detection of gas. In applications will get a notification if the gas is
leakage and and also will get a notification in mail ID. And we can see the
percentage which in (ppm )in the blink up app whenever we need in the world

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no gas leakage detected gas leakage detected

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Output evaluation using hardware and software:

GAS DETECTOR GAS SOFTWARE USED Final Response

PERCENTAGE
(PPM)
present 360ppm Arduino IDE EXHAUSTER ON

present 450ppm Arduino IDE EXHAUSTER ON

present 400ppm Arduino IDE EXHAUSTER ON

Absent 0ppm Arduino IDE EXHAUSTER OFF

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Conclusion :

• Gas escape could result in severe accidents which ends in material losses and human
injuries. Gas escape happens chiefly because of poor maintenance of apparatus and
inadequate awareness of the individuals. Thus LPG escape detection are useful to
stop accidents. This paper present an IoT based system for detection Liquefied
Petroleum Gas (LPG), which is commonly used as cooking gas at home, in order to
prevent leakage. NodeMCU(ESP-8266) is used as the controller of this system where
it processes the data of gas concentration and flame occurrence from MQ-5 sensors
and Flame sensors respectively, and decides on the action to be taken by the system
to activate prevention devices. Blynk application is used as the platform to notify the
user when a gas leakage has occurred, detection of gas and control the fire
prevention devices installed along with the system. You can monitor the gas level or
leakage from your smartphone.

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References

• 1.Vaishnavi et.al (2014) “Intelligent LPG Leakage Detection”, International Journal Of

Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 5, Issue 11, 2019
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