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Alcohol Sensor

This document describes an alcohol sensor circuit that uses an MQ-135 gas sensor and LM358 operational amplifier to detect alcohol concentration. When alcohol is detected, the gas sensor's resistance changes, causing the LM358 comparator's output to switch high and turn on an LED and buzzer. The circuit includes the gas sensor, LM358 op-amp, resistors, voltage regulator, LED, and buzzer. It works by comparing the voltage from the gas sensor to a threshold set by resistors, with the output activating alerts if the sensor detects alcohol above the threshold level.

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Alcohol Sensor

This document describes an alcohol sensor circuit that uses an MQ-135 gas sensor and LM358 operational amplifier to detect alcohol concentration. When alcohol is detected, the gas sensor's resistance changes, causing the LM358 comparator's output to switch high and turn on an LED and buzzer. The circuit includes the gas sensor, LM358 op-amp, resistors, voltage regulator, LED, and buzzer. It works by comparing the voltage from the gas sensor to a threshold set by resistors, with the output activating alerts if the sensor detects alcohol above the threshold level.

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Introduction

This alcohol sensor is suitable for detecting alcohol concentration on your breath, just like your
common breathalyzer. It has a high sensitivity and fast response time. Sensor provides an
analog resistive output based on alcohol concentration. The drive circuit is very simple, all it
needs is one resistor. A simple interface could be a 0-3.3V ADC.

Components

 Alcohol sensor
 IC LM358
 Resistor 10k, 1k.
 7805 voltage regulator
 LED
 buzzer

Circuit diagram

Working

You can see the connections in the circuit diagram. Voltage divider is connected in inverting
end of LM358 (PIN 2). And non-inverting end (PIN 3) is connected to the PIR sensor.

When we turn ON the circuit if no alcohol is detected the Output of the comparator is LOW.
When alcohol is detected PIR will high (which is connected to the non-inverting end of
comparator) gets higher than the voltage at inverting end, then the output becomes HIGH
and LED turns ON and beep the buzzer. Voltage at inverting end, which is also called
Threshold Voltage, can be set by replacing resistors. Higher the voltage at inverting end (-),
less sensitive the sensor and Lower the voltage at inverting end (-), more sensitive the
sensor.

LM358

LM358 is an operational amplifier (Op-Amp) and in this circuit we are using it as a voltage
comparator. The LM358 has two independent voltage comparators inside it, which can be
powered by single PIN, so we can use the single IC to build two IR sensor modules. We have
used only one comparator here, which have inputs at PIN 2 & 3 and output at PIN 1. Voltage
comparator has two inputs; one is inverting input and second is non-inverting input (PIN 2 and
3 in LM358). When voltage at non-inverting input (+) is higher than the voltage at inverting
input (-), then the output of comparator (PIN 1) is high. And if the voltage of inverting input (-)
is Higher than non-inverting end (+), then output is LOW.

MQ-135 Gas Sensor

The MQ-135 gas sensor senses the gases like ammonia nitrogen, oxygen, alcohols, aromatic
compounds, sulfide and smoke. The boost converter of the chip MQ-3 gas sensor is PT1301.
The operating voltage of this gas sensor is from 2.5V to 5.0V. The MQ-3 gas sensor has a lower
conductivity to clean the air as a gas sensing material. In the atmosphere we can find polluting
gases, but the conductivity of gas sensor increases as the concentration of polluting gas
increases. MQ-135 gas sensor can be implementation to detect the smoke, benzene, steam and
other harmful gases. It has potential to detect different harmful gases. The MQ-135 gas sensor
is low cost to purchase. The basic image of the MQ-135 sensor is shown in the below figure.
Application
It can be used to detect alcoholic person.

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