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Mining Engineering

Missouri University of Science and Technology

2012

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Method And Apparatus For Jet-Assisted Drilling Or Cutting, David A. Summers, Klaus Woelk, Kenneth Doyle Oglesby, Greg Galecki Sep 2012

Method And Apparatus For Jet-Assisted Drilling Or Cutting, David A. Summers, Klaus Woelk, Kenneth Doyle Oglesby, Greg Galecki

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

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.