is replaced and then a little while we see a nice bluish flame around the annular region.

A nice
phenomenon to think, WHY?

The answer lies between the difference of diffusion flame and premixed flame.

This is one of the conceptual designs of burning of kerosene. There have not been many other
ways to burn kerosene and take the energy usefully to do the cooking of food. However, there is
another design also which allows the efficient use of kerosene to use if for cooking purpose.

The other design to use the kerosene for taking out its energy usefully is that of a pressure strove.
In this design, instead of wicks, there is a pipe that feeds the kerosene through a valve and into an
air chamber and a hand pump is used to pressurise the chamber. The kerosene vaporizes inside the
chamber and when we pump the stove, the pressure forces the vapor as a gas jet through an aperture
in the burner where it entrains air and burns up the fuel in a near blue turbulent flame.

It worth mentioning here that the flame in the case of wick stove is a laminar flame.

Pressure flame needs a very careful design and many parameters are to be considered while
designing it. A very narrow band of pressure at which the stove gives optimum performance has
to be maintained; which asks the user to pump it time to time as with time pressure decreases in
the chamber. The chamber too must be strong enough to withstand the pressure required.

Liquefied petroleum gas stove

Another class of users, largely urbans, may use liquefied petroleum gas as source of energy for
cooking food. This is widely knowns as LPG in society. This is the most efficient use of energy
for cooking food widely used in the society. In this simply valve is opened and the gas starts coming
out and mixes up with oxidiser prior to burning. The mixture is highly inflammable, and only a
spark is required to ignite the gas oozing out of the burner holes.

The spark igniter may not always start the ignition perfectly. Sometimes when the spark doesn’t
come out at the right time, gas start getting collected and then when spark comes out, it ignites a
sudden large flame. Unless there are too much gas mixture is collected outside the burner, this is
not a dangerous phenomenon, as a steady flame is sustained afterwards.

Burning of candle
Candle burns in a very interesting manner and it provides a very complex combustion phenomenon
in its flame. In this case the fuel which is paraffine wax, burns in two different phases. The burning
of a candle flame involves several complex processes and can be divided into different zones or
regions, each with its own characteristics. Generally, a candle flame consists of two main parts: