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Hello everybody,

I am new in the use of OpenFoam.
I want to run a sprayFoam simulation (OpenFOAM 2.3.1), similar to the aachenBomb tutorial.
With the injection of Heptan (C7H16) everything works just fine, but when I change the chem.inp and the therm.dat in the chemkin folder to Dodecan (C12H26), following error occurs:

[--> FOAM FATAL ERROR:
while reading reaction specie/keyword on line 8
expected <word> or <label> but found '"="> 12CO2 + 13H2O 3.10E+8 0.0 15780.0! 1'

From function chemkinReader::lex()
in file chemistryReaders/chemkinReader/chemkinLexer.L at line 1517.

FOAM exiting]


corresponding chem.inp:
[ELEMENTS
H O C N AR
END
SPECIE
C12H26 O2 N2 CO2 H2O
END
REACTIONS
C12H26 + 18.502 => 12CO2 + 13H2O 3.10E+8 0.0 15780.0! 1
FORD / C12H26 0.25 /
FORD / O2 1.5 /
END]

and the corresponding therm.dat:
[THERMO ALL
200.000 1000.000 6000.000
C12H26 T 5/99C 12H 26 0 0G 200.000 6000.000 1000. 1
3.70187925E+01 5.54721488E-02-1.92079548E-05 3.08175574E-09-1.84800617E-13 2
-5.26984458E+04-1.61453501E+02 2.13264480E+01-3.86394002E-02 3.99476113E-04 3
-5.06681097E-07 2.00697878E-10-4.22475053E+04-4.85848300E+01-3.49836226E+04 4
O2 ATcT06O 2. 0. 0. 0.G 200.000 6000.000 1000. 1
3.45852381E+00 1.04045351E-03-2.79664041E-07 3.11439672E-11-8.55656058E-16 2
1.02229063E+04 4.15264119E+00 3.78535371E+00-3.21928540E-03 1.12323443E-05 3
-1.17254068E-08 4.17659585E-12 1.02922572E+04 3.27320239E+00 1.13558105E+04 4
N2 G 8/02N 2. 0. 0. 0.G 200.000 6000.000 1000. 1
2.95257637E+00 1.39690040E-03-4.92631603E-07 7.86010195E-11-4.60755204E-15 2
-9.23948688E+02 5.87188762E+00 3.53100528E+00-1.23660988E-04-5.02999433E-07 3
2.43530612E-09-1.40881235E-12-1.04697628E+03 2.96747038E+00 0.00000000E+00 4
CO2 L 7/88C 1O 2 0 0G 200.000 6000.000 1000. 1
0.46365111E+01 0.27414569E-02-0.99589759E-06 0.16038666E-09-0.91619857E-14 2
-0.49024904E+05-0.19348955E+01 0.23568130E+01 0.89841299E-02-0.71220632E-05 3
0.24573008E-08-0.14288548E-12-0.48371971E+05 0.99009035E+01-0.47328105E+05 4
H2O L 5/89H 2O 1 0 0G 200.000 6000.000 1000. 1
0.26770389E+01 0.29731816E-02-0.77376889E-06 0.94433514E-10-0.42689991E-14 2
-0.29885894E+05 0.68825500E+01 0.41986352E+01-0.20364017E-02 0.65203416E-05 3
-0.54879269E-08 0.17719680E-11-0.30293726E+05-0.84900901E+00-0.29084817E+05 4
END]

I already searched in the web and several forums for a solution of that problem, without luck.

If somebody has an idea, what the problem could be, please let me know?

Every advice will be very appreciated.
Kind regards