An embodiment of the invention is a composition of diesel, biodiesel or
blended fuel (DF) with exhaust gas (EG) mixtures or with liquid CO.sub.2.
The composition is in a liquid state near the supercritical region or a
supercritical fluid mixture such that it quasi-instantaneously diffuses
into the compressed and hot air as a single and homogeneous supercritical
phase upon injection in a combustion chamber. Suitable temperatures and
pressures are greater than about 300.degree. C. and 100 bar, and the mole
fraction of EG or CO.sub.2 (X.sub.EG or X.sub.CO2) in DF is in the range
of 0.0-0.9. In a combustion process embodiment, composition embodiments
are injected into a combustion chamber under supercritical conditions.
The content of EG or CO.sub.2 in DF can be controlled as a function of
engine operating parameters such as rpm and load. The thermodynamic and
transport properties of supercritical DF-EG or DF-CO.sub.2 compositions
can be more easily tuned and controlled than subcritical two-phase
compositions. Delivery of the DF-EG or DF-CO.sub.2 composition into the
combustion chamber as a homogeneous isotropic single-phase composition
provides a significant increase in engine efficiency. Combustion process
and fuel system embodiments of the invention provide an improved
composition process with reduced formation of particulate matter (PM),
aldehydes, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), CO, NO.sub.x, and SO.sub.x.