Patents Assigned to Regency Technologies, LLC
  • Method and apparatus for jet-assisted drilling or cutting
    Patent number: 8257147
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Regency Technologies, LLC, The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: David Archibold Summers, Klaus Hubert Woelk, Kenneth Doyle Oglesby, Grzegorz Galecki
  • Gas liquid solid compact cyclonic separator
    Patent number: 7569098
    Abstract: A compact cyclonic separator is described which can handle mixtures of solids, liquids and gases in one vessel and provide continuous separation. The invention operates by providing tangential flow into a vertical cylindrical tube and utilizing the tangential flow and gravity to separate into a gas stream, a clean liquids stream, and a solid rich slurry mixture. Several embodiments for controlling the flow of the solid rich slurry mixture are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Regency Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Doyle Oglesby