CPC C10L 1/1857 (2013.01) [C10L 10/02 (2013.01); C10L 10/06 (2013.01); C10L 10/10 (2013.01); F02B 47/04 (2013.01); C10L 2270/02 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method for powering an internal combustion engine, comprising:
combusting a fuel to drive a piston in a cylinder of the engine;
wherein the fuel comprises a minority portion of a ketone-based blending agent selected from a C4 to C10 branched acyclic ketone, cyclopentanone, or a derivative of cyclopentanone and a majority portion of a fuel selected from the group consisting of: gasoline, diesel, alcohol fuel, biofuel, renewable fuel, Fischer-Tropsch fuel, and combinations thereof;
wherein the engine is not a spark ignition engine and is a low-temperature gasoline combustion engine or homogenous charge compression engine;
wherein the majority portion of the fuel is present in a ratio of 95:5 to 51:49 by volume of the ketone-based blending agent.
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