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VenturiNozzleAnalyzer: Decision-Support Software for Engineered Air-Nozzle Retrofits in Compressed-Air Systems Orhan KAYA (24662814) Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified Industrial engineering Automated software engineering Compressed air Engineered air nozzle Venturi nozzle Blow gun Energy efficiency Industrial Assessment Center Choked flow Compressor power Decision-support software VenturiNozzleAnalyzer is a standalone Windows application for estimating the energy and cost savings of replacing open compressed-air blow guns with reduced orifices or engineered (venturi) air nozzles. The software generalizes an Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) recommendation into a reusable tool.It includes:<ul><li>a choked-orifice flow model with subsonic-flow correction,</li><li>adiabatic compression work evaluated with absolute pressures,</li><li>energy and demand tariffs, implementation cost, and simple-payback analysis.</li></ul>The proposed nozzle can be represented either as a reduced orifice or by its catalog air consumption, with optional pressure regulation. Built-in consistency checks flag simultaneous air demand exceeding compressor capacity, power reductions above 50% of compressor input, subsonic flow, and the OSHA 30 psi dead-end pressure limit. The application supports US customary and SI units, USD/EUR/TL currencies, a built-in IAC case study, an input guide, four engineering plots, and export to XLSX, TXT, and PNG. This Figshare item contains the standalone Windows executable (.exe), the C# (.NET 8) source code, and the case-study input and output data. 2026-09-30T19:05:18Z Software Software 10.6084/m9.figshare.34036674.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/software/VenturiNozzleAnalyzer_Decision-Support_Software_for_Engineered_Air-Nozzle_Retrofits_in_Compressed-Air_Systems/34036674 CC BY 4.0