A suspension medium for improved grit delivery in vapor blast operations sets forth addition of a suspending-agent to a blast solution whereby solids are maintained in suspension absent agitation or mixing for at least 60 hours. The suspending agent increases the viscosity and/or density of the blast solution to increase the buoyancy force and/or acts as a dispersant and/or surfactant to maintain suspension of solids in solution over the extended time period. Different concentrations of suspending-agent may be employed with different grit and solid sized particles, depending on the application of vapor blasting at hand. The suspending-agent is preferably biodegradable.

A water-abrasive suspension cutting facility includes a pressure tank (11) for providing a water-abrasive agent suspension (13) which is under pressure, a lock chamber (21), and a refilling valve for refilling abrasive agent into the pressure tank via the lock chamber (21). The refilling valve (21) includes a valve entry (49), a valve exit (51), a valve space (71) which is arranged between the valve entry (49) and the valve exit (51), and a valve body (67) which is located in the valve space (71). The valve entry (49) is connected to the lock chamber (21) and the valve exit (51) to the pressure tank (11). The refilling valve (19) can assume a first closure position, a first open position and a second open position. In the first closure position the lock chamber (21) is fluid-separated from the pressure tank.

A micro-abrasion sandblast device having a tank for containing a supply of abrasive media and having a media outlet on a base thereof and a cabinet attached to the tank and providing a first inlet to which an external source of compressed air is connectable and a second inlet to which an external source of water is connectable. A media valve is located adjacent the base of the tank for receiving media from the media outlet and compressed air from the cabinet. A blast hose coupler connects to and extends from the media valve for receiving the media and compressed air from the media valve.

An abrasive water jet nozzle for strengthening, including a chamber, providing a mixing space; and a strengthening mixing assembly, providing a strengthening mixing of water with an abrasive entering the chamber, wherein the strengthening mixing assembly includes a fluid passage and a water stopper block, wherein the water stopper block is located at an eccentric position on one side of the chamber, and an outlet of the fluid passage faces the water stopper block. The provided abrasive water jet nozzle is capable of fully mixing high speed water with the abrasive particles after the high speed water entering the mixing chamber, so as to ensure the uniformity of the strengthening effect, and the formed abrasive water jet is a large circular fan-shaped jet, which can greatly improve the strengthening quality of the abrasive water jet.

Disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods of operating an abrasive fluid jet system that recycles and reuses abrasive particles for multiple cycles. The systems and methods include adjusting one or more operating parameters of the abrasive fluid jet system to compensate for a reduction in cutting power of the used abrasives as the used abrasive particles are continuously discharged from the outlet of the cutting head across multiple cycles. The one or more operating parameters include fluid pressure that forms the fluid jet, a cutting speed of the cutting head, and flow rate of abrasive particles, which are changeable while continuing to operate the abrasive fluid jet system. The one or more operating parameters include an orifice size through which a fluid passes to generate the second fluid jet, a mixing tube diameter through which the second abrasive fluid jet passes, and a length of the mixing tube.

An abrasive head with clean gas infeed for cleaning/removing material surfaces and splitting/cutting materials by a liquid beam enriched with solid abrasive particles to extend the tool lifetime by eliminating damage to the liquid jet's aperture by the abrasive, avoid degrading the abrasive inside the tool and increase the cutting power and flow efficiency.

An apparatus for abrasive cleaning includes an abrasive media storage vessel for storing a supply of abrasive media at ambient pressure. The storage vessel has an outlet for supplying abrasive media into a first gas stream at a first gas pressure in a first flow passage, the first flow passage supplying a mixture of gas and abrasive media to an outlet nozzle. A main gas stream communicates with the outlet nozzle via a second flow passage at a second gas pressure, the second gas pressure being higher than the first gas pressure. The mixture of gas and abrasive media from the first flow passage is entrained into the main gas stream from the second flow passage in or downstream of the outlet nozzle.

A cutting head assembly uses multiple cutting heads directing ultra-high pressure fluid in different directions towards an inner surface of a pipe to be cut in order to complete a full cut of the pipe while rotating or revolving the multiple cutting heads less than 360 degrees relative to central axis. The ultra-high pressure fluid mixes with abrasive inside fittings on or near each of the nozzles to further assist with cutting through the pipe. Some cutting head assemblies have two nozzles, while other cutting head assemblies have three or four nozzles.

An apparatus capable of efficiently performing a metal surface processing. The abrasive peening apparatus includes a processing tank storing abrasive particles and peening liquid, and including a bottom portion in which a workpiece is immersed in the peening liquid; a dispensing chamber having a plurality of recesses on an upper surface, and disposed in the bottom portion to dispense the peening liquid; a stirring nozzle disposed at a center of the recess directing vertically upward and connected to the dispensing chamber to eject the peening liquid; a peening nozzle immersed inside the processing tank to eject the peening liquid toward the workpiece; and a moving device moving the peening nozzle relative to the workpiece.

A waterjet system is provided, including a pump configured to pump fluid, an electric motor configured to drive the pump, a hopper configured to store abrasive, and a mixing chamber configured to mix abrasive from the hopper and the fluid from the pump to produce a slurry. A cutting bed is configured to receive a workpiece to be cut. A cutting head is configured to expel the slurry through the outlet nozzle as a high-velocity jet into the cutting bed.