My interest lies in studying the combustion of acetone droplets (approximately 115 to 220 µm in diameter) under asymmetric conditions. Using a vibrating orifice aerosol generator to generate the droplets, they will pass through a coiled nickel chrome wire which is heated using standard 115VAC power to get the droplets to auto-ignite while passing by a heating plate. Planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging and possible infrared imaging will be used to study the temperature gradients of the burning droplets. Currently I am constructing and testing the nickel chrome heating apparatus to ignite the acetone droplets. When finished, the data gathered from my experiments should provide insight on how asymmetric heating affects the burning of micro-sized fuel droplets.