ISSN (Online) : 2319 – 8753 ISSN (Print) : 2347 - 6710 International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology An ISO 3297: 2007 Certified Organization Volume 3, Special I ssue 4, April 2014 Two days National Conference – VISHWATECH 2014 On 21 st & 22nd February, Organized by Department of CIVIL, CE, ETC, MECHNICAL, MECHNICAL SAND, IT Engg. Of Vishwabharati Academy’s College of engineering, Ahmednagar, Maharastra, India. Copyright to IJIRSET www.ijirset.com 87 Performance Analysis of Burners used in LPG Cooking Stove-A Review Jagruti R. Surange 1 , Navneet K. Patil 2, Akhilesh V. Rajput 3 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engg., S.S.B.T., C.O.E.T., Bambhori, College/ university, Jalgaon, MH, India 1 Asso. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engg, S.S.B.T., C.O.E.T., Bambhori, College/ university, Jalgaon, MH, India 2 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engg, S.S.B.T., C.O.E.T., Bambhori, College/ university, Jalgaon, MH, India 3 Abstract: L.P.G is the most convenient and clean fuel for domestic use and is very popular in these days. The LPG stove industry is about 36 years old and is mainly concentrated in the small-scale sector. LPG is an exceptional energy source due to its origin, relative advantages and applications. No wonder LPG is known as The Ideal Fuel for Modern Living. With global availability, environmental benefits, its natural by-product origin, transportation flexibility and diverse application, LPG plays a pivotal role in the transition towards a more secure, sustainable and competitive energy model. Considering the limited fossil fuel resources, energy conservation, environmental issues, increase in the demand on LPG in near future, it is a necessary to explore the ways to further improve the thermal efficiency and the emission characteristics of the existing LPG cooking stoves. In the present work, various works dealt with research in increasing thermal efficiency of stoves using different fuels, and different burners are studied. Various parameters affecting thermal efficiency of a burner are determined. Keywords: LPG cooking burner, performance Analysis, efficiency I. INTRODUCTION A gas burner is a device to generate a flame to heat up products using a gaseous fuel such as acetylene, natural gas or propane. Some burners have an air inlet to mix the fuel gas with air to make a complete combustion. Acetylene is commonly used in combination with oxygen. It has many applications such as cooking, soldering, brazing and welding, the latter using oxygen instead of air for getting a hotter flame which is required for melting steel. For laboratory uses a natural gas fired Bunsen burner is used. For melting metals with melting points of up to 1100 °C such as copper, silver and gold a propane burner with natural drag of air can be used. LPG stove is a relatively simple appliance for direct combustion. Its burner is a premix and multi-holed burning ports type, and operates at atmospheric low-pressure. A typical gas stove consists of gas supply tube, gas tap/valve, gas injector jet, primary air opening(s) or regulator, throat, gas mixing tube/manifold, burner head, burner ports (orifices), pot supports and body frame. Center for Energy Studies, Institute of Engineering Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk, Lalitpur,Nepal [1] have found out the efficiency of biogas stove. For comparison, efficiency of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) and kerosene stove (pressure type and wick type) was also studied. Efficiency of a stove could be categorized as burning efficiency and overall efficiency. Burning efficiency of a stove accounts for the capacity of that stove in terms of combustion of fuel, in other words ability of the stove to change the energy from fuel to heat energy is related with burning efficiency. The ability of the stove to change the energy from fuel into the energy gained by the specimen such as water, rice, milk etc is termed as overall efficiency of the stove. Generally efficiency of stove is indicated by overall efficiency. Other evidences on calculation of efficiency of different types of stoves were studied for their research. Overall efficiency of stove depends upon different conditions such as temperature, pressure, wind speed, specific heat capacity of the vessel, bottom and overall shape of vessel, weight of vessel, size of vessel and amount of specimen. Thus different tests for efficiency could yield different results of the same stove. Calorific value (MJ/kg or kJ/ Lit) of the fuel is the input energy for stove and they accounted it in course of efficiency measurement.