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Títol: Chemical sensing of dangerous gases based on a 4G drone platform

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PASTOR LLORENS, ENRIC

Departament: DAC

Títol: Chemical sensing of dangerous gases based on a 4G drone platform

Data inici oferta: 27-07-2020     Data finalització oferta: 27-03-2021


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIS TELECOMUN
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
    GR ENG TELEMÀTICA
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Drone, chemical sensors, emergency response, dangerous gases
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
The recent accident at the Tarragona chemical plant station
has shown the need to have a more consistent network of
dangerous gases monitoring. The explosion in the Ethylene
Oxide Chemical Industries (Iqoxe) company of the Tarragona
petrochemical company caused three deaths and seven injuries.
Quoted from the press: The depth of this review and updating
highlights the number of aspects that did not work during the
accident. The explosion brought to the table failures in the
application of the established protocols - such as ordering
the confinement of the population through Twitter but not
activating the mandatory sirens - and also the lack of
information and means of the civil protection personnel,
firefighters and other security forces. The main and most
worrying problem was not knowing which product or products had
exploded and, therefore, not knowing if a toxic cloud had
formed, how to deal with a possible leak or the extinction of
the fire that started.
The emergency first responders have also identified their
interest in exploiting aerial vehicles which could overfly the
potential areas of an accident in order to gather real-time
measures of dangerous gases as well as get direct images from
the aerial platform.
The information collected by the autonomous vehicles should be
relayed in real time to the cloud and show in some way to the
first responders. The project will address both elements. On
one side, it will be necessary to design a system capable of
detecting dangerous gases, which should need to be fully
integrated into the drone. On the other side, the distribution
of the information from the drone to the clould thought the 4G
network will be also implemented by exploiting already
existing infrastructure.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):

This project is about our ambitious hazardous gas detection system on a drone-based platform that will allow us to detect these dangerous gases in real time in localitations with reduced accessibility and monitoring the concentration in air, intended mainly for detection in industrial areas. First of all, we will introduce some studies that we have been taken into account before beginning our project in order to search examples of other projects similar to our idea or that we should apply to our project, therefore, the first and the second chapters will address with some interesting projects we found about gas detection and detection in drones. The third chapter is completely about the project developed by us and what decisions we have made during its design. It will be divided into different subsections that will address each of the design parameters. First of all, there is an introduction to the different types of dangerous gases as it will be the main design point of the project ant it will force the type of sensors and electronics will vary widely depending on the type of the target gas to be detected, for our project, the target is to detect toxic gases in industrial areas. Secondly, we will look at the main types of sensors and the reasons why we have decided to use mainly electrochemical ones. In the third section of this chapter we will choose the gases that the drone will detect, their dangerous concentration levels and the sensor that will detect them. The fourth section we will explain the electronics that equip the drone and the configurations of some of the systems and finally we will show the different drone platforms we have taken into account to assemble the system and which one we should implement based on its characteristics and price.

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