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Increase in the air pollution has driven the research towards the cleaner combustion technology for reciprocating engines. To tackle the challenge of the trade-off between the NOx and soot emissions from a conventional diesel engine, premixed low-temperature combustion (LTC) strategies are potential technologies. Among the LTC strategies, reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) strategy has a better combustion phasing control along with higher fuel conversion efficiency and lower NOx and soot emissions. The present study investigated the nano-particle emissions from RCCI engine fueled with a port injection of gasoline/methanol (low reactivity fuel) and direct injection of diesel (high reactivity fuel). The RCCI combustion experiments were performed on a modified single cylinder compression ignition engine with development ECU. The mass of injected fuel per stroke for the port as well as the direct injection is controlled through ECU.