“…Exergy loss for gasoline fuel combustion Fig. 2 shows the calculated overall Ex loss rate, Ex loss rate of individual reactions, and exergy loss for an adiabatic, constant volume combustion process fueled with a gasoline surrogate at an initial charge temperature (T in ) of 800 K, initial pressure (P in ) of 45 atm, oxygen concentration ([O 2 ]) of 21%, and equivalence ratio (U) of 0.3, which is close to the condition at the top dead center of a naturally aspirated homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine with a compression ratio (CR) of 17 that is consistent with the investigations by Reitz et al [27,28] of direct injection (DI) compression ignition (CI) engine combustion fueled with gasoline aiming to extend the operation ranges for a light-duty diesel engine. As seen in Fig.…”