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Yang, S.C., Liu, Y.K., Wu, N., Zhang, Y.X., Svoronos, S. and Pullammanappallil, P. (2019) Low-Cost, Arduino-Based, Portable Device for Measurement of Methane Composition in Biogas. Renewable Energy, 138, 224-229.
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• TITLE: Design of a Methane Monitoring System for Landfill and Duct Emissions

  AUTHORS: Federico Hahn, Gaudencio Grande

  KEYWORDS: Methane Detection, MQ-4 Sensor, Monitoring Head, Current Consumption

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Resources, Vol.11 No.11, November 24, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Methane is released from waste disposal areas as a result from anaerobic decay of food. Methane causes more greenhouse effects than carbon dioxide so a methane monitoring system is required to warn its release from gas emitting environments. The low explosive limit of methane is 5% in ambient air, so gas leakage is dangerous and can produce explosions. An entire head monitoring system was built around a MQ-4 methane gas sensor as it is cheap and reliable. The design proves to be flexible enough as it can measure CH4 emissions in ducts, CH4 in landfills at different depths and even in cattle barns. The measuring system head consists of a suction pump, solenoids, and a methane sensor. Measurements are taken 13 seconds after methane gas sucking. A timing of 100 seconds is required for purging the chamber before the second solenoid is turned-on. Devices temperature during operation was sampled with a thermal Flir-One camera and solenoid coil temperature was of 24.9˚C after a continuous operation of 30 seconds. As hoses for emission sampling become larger time for sampling increases as well as energy consumption.