Can somebody give me the balanced equation for incomplete combustion of gasoline?

Question

This question has to do with a car's engine going through incomplete combustion.

Answer 1

You'd need to know how much oxygen is actually present, otherwise you will be unable to figure out whether the carbon from gasoline once burned forms carbon soot, carbon monoxide, or carbon dioxide.

Answer 2

If combustion is as you say "incomplete" this means, mixtures of products will come out, each having its own "balanced" equation. Also must be many equations, because in gasoline itself are many different components.

Best thing under theses circumstances I think is, to name some of those reaction products, which exist besides the main products H2O, CO2 and CO such as:

C (= carbon as soot, dust or other smallsize particle)

PAH (=polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) like benzo[a]pyren; they are mostly adsorbed on carbon and are also characterized as CHx

aldehydes like formaldhyde HCHO

alcohols like ethanol C2H5OH and ketones like acetone.

Also come out nitrogen containing compounds NOx, depending particularly on the temperature of the incineration process.