Sri Balasaheb Mane Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Ambaps

Ashokrao Mane Group Of Institutions

Vathar Tarf Vadgaon
Tal-Hatkanangle, Dis-Kolhapur-416112

Department of
Mechanical Engineering
 INTRODUCTION
• Automobile vehicles use fuel as a basic source of energy.
Many technologies, over a period of time have been
evolved for proper efficient consumption as well as for
predicting and accurately concluding the fuel harnessed at
each stage of its use in any system. we can measure the
fuel present in tank but we cant measure it while filling at
petrol pump.
• Fuel flow meter is a device that measure amount of fuel
during filling the fuel in the tank.
• Its main purpose is to stops the frauds happened while
filling the fuel in vehicle at petrol pumps
 Float type level sensing gadget
• Float work on the simple principle of placing a buoyant
object with a specific gravity intermediate between those
of the process fluid and the headspace vapor into the tank,
then attaching a mechanical device to read out the
position( as shown in fig 1).
 Laser level sensing:
A laser transmitter at the top of a vessel fires a short pulse of
light down to the process liquid surface, which reflects it back
to the detector. A timing circuit measures the elapsed time and
calculates the distance
 Flow meter specifications
• Type: Turbine type
• Working Voltage: 5 to 18V DC (min tested working voltage 4.5V) Max
current draw: 15mA @ 5V
• Output Type: 5V TTL
• Working Flow Rate: 1 to 30 Liters/Minute
• Working Temperature range: -25 to +80 degree celsius Maximum
water pressure: 2.0 MPa
• Durability: minimum 300,000 cycles Cable length: 15cm
• 1/2" nominal pipe connections, 0.78" outer diameter
 Main circuit diagram  

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Diagram
 PREVIOUS WORKS :
 

• Lot of research work has been carried out for evolving different water
flow measurement techniques. Louis Castlier et. al (1997) describes
design and fabrication of a low cost water flow meter which can
measure up to 9 liter/minute, avoiding direct contact of flow with
silicon sensors in [2]. Techniques of measuring water flow rates with
the help of neural networks had also been proposed. Shiqian Cai and
Halk Toral(1993) proposed a technique of measuring flow rate in Air-
Water Horizontal Pipeline with the help of Neural Networks. In this
paper the Kohonen self- organizing feature map (KSOFM) and the
multi-layer back propagation network (MBPN) were applied in a
hybrid network model to measure the flow rate of individual phases
in horizontal air- water flow.
 Future Enhancement
 

• GSM module + GPS device can be attached and give the

readings directly to the mobiles.
 
• In future we can also add some features like displaying
mileage or distance to go before the tank gets empty.

 
 Reference
• [1]. Nitin jade, Pranjal Shrimali, Asvin Patel and
Sagar Gupta, (2014). “Modified type
 
 
• [2]. Vinay Divakar, (2014). “Fuel gauge sensing
technologies for automotive applications”,
IJARCET, volume 3 issue 1, January 2014.
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