Abstract: A recirculating burner for burning a vaporizable liquid fuel comprising a housing, a combustion chamber in the housing, with inlet and outlet, a vaporizing chamber, with inlet and outlet, an air inlet for directing air under pressure into the combustion chamber, a fuel inlet atomizer, adjacent to the vaporizing chamber inlet, for automizing vaporizable liquid fuel and directing the fuel into the vaporizing chamber, a gaseous fuel inlet for feeding gaseous fuel into the combustion chamber, a first passage interconnecting the combustion chamber toward the combustion chamber outlet with the vaporizing chamber inlet, for receiving hot combustion gases from the combustion chamber, a second passage effectively interconnecting the vaporizing chamber outlet with the combustion chamber inlet, the air inlet communicating with the second passage, and a vortex generator at the interface of the fuel inlet atomizer, the first passage, and the vaporizing chamber inlet, the generator being rotatable with respect to the housi