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The aim of this work is to generate a semi-detailed mechanism for the oxidation of n-heptane and iso-octane mixture with 241 species and 1905 reactions and to optimize it for the different engine operating conditions to cover the full range of temperature. A step wise efficient lumping strategy for different reaction types combine with necessity analysis has been used for the simplification and reduction of mechanism in order to make it faster and less complex in terms of both number of reactions and species. Its validation has been done against the shock tube experimental data from Fieweger et al. for both low and high temperature regions, lean and rich fuel conditions, a range of octane numbers and pressures from 13 bar to 40 bar. In addition, the mechanism was tested using a zero dimensional Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition engine model against experiments under a range of different octane numbers and initial temperatures.