Method and apparatus for jet-assisted drilling or cutting

Summers, David Archibold; Woelk, Klaus Hubert; Oglesby, Kenneth Doyle; Galecki, Grzegorz

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Title: Method and apparatus for jet-assisted drilling or cutting

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An abrasive cutting or drilling system, apparatus and method, which includes an upstream supercritical fluid and/or liquid carrier fluid, abrasive particles, a nozzle and a gaseous or low-density supercritical fluid exhaust abrasive stream. The nozzle includes a throat section and, optionally, a converging inlet section, a divergent discharge section, and a feed section.

Inventors:: Summers, David Archibold; Woelk, Klaus Hubert; Oglesby, Kenneth Doyle; Galecki, Grzegorz

Issue Date:: 2013-07-02

Research Org.:: The Curators of the University of Missouri (Rolla, MO); Regency Technologies LLC (Tulsa, OK)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1086813

Patent Number(s):: 8475230

Application Number:: 13/589,626

Assignee:: The Curators of the University of Missouri (Rolla, MO); Regency Technologies LLC (Tulsa, OK)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B24 - GRINDING B24C - ABRASIVE OR RELATED BLASTING WITH PARTICULATE MATERIAL

E - FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS E21 - EARTH DRILLING E21B - EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING

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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B24 - GRINDING B24C - ABRASIVE OR RELATED BLASTING WITH PARTICULATE MATERIAL
B24C11/005 - {of additives, e.g. anti-corrosive or disinfecting agents in solid, liquid or gaseous form}

E - FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS E21 - EARTH DRILLING E21B - EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING
E21B7/18 - Drilling by liquid or gas jets, with or without entrained pellets

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DOE Contract Number:: FC26-04NT15476

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING

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                    Summers, David Archibold, Woelk, Klaus Hubert, Oglesby, Kenneth Doyle, and Galecki, Grzegorz. Method and apparatus for jet-assisted drilling or cutting.  United States: N. p., 2013. 
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