Design of Real-Time Gas Emission Tester for Diesel Power Plant Applications

The paper proposes design of real-time gas emission tester for diesel power plant applications. Several sensors are utilized in our design system, such as sensor of KE for O2 gas, MQ136 for SO2 gas, TGS 2201 for NOx gas, MQ7 for CO gas, MQ2 for smoke opacity including Modul DT-Sense SHT 11 sensor for temperature and humidity. All sensors basically produce analog output voltage; therefore the analog data is converted to 8 bit digital data for the further processing and controlling in the ADC pin of ATmega16 microcontroller. The real-time measurement results can be monitored through visualization in Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and computer monitor after data processing using microcontroller ATmega16 under programming environment of CodeVision AVR V2.03.4. The visualization itself is designed based on the combination between programming language of Microsoft Visual Basic ver. 6.0 and Borland C++. The experimental results show that the proposed design is working properly. The information related to the emitted gas from plant chimney can be collected, stored in real-time and accessed online through web based interface systems.