Engine STOP: blinit: ERROR: in file assignments

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FORTRAN engine STOP: blinit: ERROR: in file assignments

This is a fairly odd error message and it is rather severe looking. Here is a typical error message:

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The path to the dump file will show you this same error message. The ESP run-time window gives you some more information:

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Let's diagnose this window. The main message at the top of the image says "Executing model COOLWRM for case CT"

What this message means is that we are going to use the OLI Chemistry model COOLWRM.DBS and the process file CT.BIN. Looking at the folder which contains these files we see:

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We see the file COOLWRM.DBS but the only BIN file is "CT Base.BIN" The expectant file CT.BIN does not seem to exist. This tripped the error message program. ESP is actually caught in an in-determinant state. We we started ESP we found a process file in the main windows that looked like this:

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So we found the BIN file CT BASE.BIN. Pressing the enter key brings us into the process. All looks OK so we will attempt to run the process and we will get the above error message. If you close the window you may be returned to a screen similar to this:

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Notice that in the upper Right-Hand corner ESP is thinking it is working with the process "CT" instead of "CT Base" This be because the solver parsed the name looking for the "." and found a space instead. The current version of ESP cannot tolerate a space in either the chemistry model name or the process name. The easy solution is to rename the BIN file such that it does not contain a space.