Issues in running ptfire (2018 inventory)

SMOKE Emissions Inventory
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Hi all,

I downloaded 2017 emission modeling platform from EPA FTP (ftp://newftp.epa.gov/air/emismod/2017/), and configured and ran ptfire for 2017 Jan ptfire. It went fine for onetime and daily scripts without any issue. All VOC and toxics can be recognized and there was no problem to create VOC.ncf.

I then downloaded the most current 2018 fire inventory from ftp://newftp.epa.gov/air/emismod/2018/2018emissions/
and used similar configuration to run 2018 ptfire.

onetime script was finished without ERROR, but VOC.ncf cannot be created

     WARNING: no sources with data for output of data variable "VOC"
          File will not be written.
--->> Normal Completion of program SMKINVEN
--->> Normal Completion of program SPCMAT
--->> Normal Completion of program GRDMAT

When I ran daily for 2018 Jan, the fatal error is

     *** ERROR ABORT in subroutine GENPDOUT
     Problem with input file

However, there are tons of errors before this fatal error,

     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:110000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:120000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:130000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:140000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:150000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:160000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:170000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:180000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:190000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:200000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:210000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:220000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018001:230000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018002:000000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018002:010000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018002:020000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018002:030000
     Timestep written to PDAY for date and time   2018002:040000
     ERROR: Both VOC|TOG and toxics are not found  for the sourc:
          Region: 000000013021 Plant: 1307920180102 Char1: 1307920180102276 Char2: 0102
          Char3: 1283 Char4: 00000000002811015001

but I did check the VOC and HAPs for this source are in both ptinv and ptday files.

Here are my runscripts and logs

Annual_ptfire_onetime_12US1_2018.csh (7.3 KB) smkinven_ptfire_2017gb_17jlog.txt (29.1 KB) grdmat_ptfire_2017gb_17j_12US1log.txt (20.6 KB) Uploading: spcmat_ptfire_2017gb_17j_cmaq_cb6ae7log.txt… Annual_ptfire_daily_12US1_2018.csh (7.5 KB)
the file I cannot upload here is the jan smkinv log
here it is

any suggestions are very helpful
I have also tried different pre-compiled smoke version(v4.5) and different platform (2014v2), but all gave me same error.

@bbaek maybe you know some potential solutions?

thank you
Joey

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A different NHAPEXCLUDE file called nhapexclude _2018gc_ptfire_31mar2021_v0.txt is needed to run 2018 fires.

Have you used this file?

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Alison, thanks, no I am still using nhapexclude_2017_ptfire_17apr2020_v0.txt, I will try that now.

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@eyth.alison is Right. Based on the error message, you need to use the paired NHAPEXCLUDE input file. If you still have a problem of generating VOC, I would suggest you to update the INVTABLE file as well.

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@eyth.alison @bbaek this works, thank you both !