Electrolyte Jet Processing | Adam Clare FREng

Keywords: electrolyte jet machining (EJM) · electrochemical jet processing · programmable surface texturing · microstructure / crystallographic texture · Texture Jet Ltd.

Electrolyte Jet Processing (EJP) is a non-contact, electrochemical jet-based approach to machining and functional surface texturing. In this area, our work has focused on turning EJM from a “single-feature” laboratory process into a repeatable, programmable process family—with control over feature placement, geometry, and surface integrity.

Core themes:

Process physics + control: linking jet delivery, address angle, and energy distribution to outcomes.
Programmable surface structuring: translating toolpath concepts into reliable micro-scale surface features.
Materials sensitivity: understanding how alloy microstructure influences removal behaviour and surface quality.
Industrialisation: technology translation and application-led development through Texture Jet Ltd.

Electrolyte jet processing setup (Texture Jet)

Selected papers

Work in this area includes publications with Bisterov, Speidel, and Mitchell-Smith (among others):

Electrolyte jet machining of titanium alloys using novel electrolyte solutions (Speidel et al., 2016)
Energy distribution modulation by mechanical design for electrochemical jet processing techniques (Mitchell-Smith et al., 2017)
Transitory electrochemical masking for precision jet processing techniques (Mitchell-Smith et al., 2018)
Advancing electrochemical jet methods through manipulation of the angle of address (Mitchell-Smith et al., 2018)
Specific and programmable surface structuring by electrochemical jet processing (Bisterov et al., 2018)
The importance of microstructure in electrochemical jet processing (Speidel et al., 2018)
Precision enhanced electrochemical jet processing (Clare et al., 2018)

Images from papers

Electrolyte Jet Topography: workflow from acquisition to microstructure

Electrolyte Jet Topography: from measurement and data processing through to phase identification and microstructure reconstruction.

Electrolyte jet processing system overview

Representative schematics: system-level architecture and the local jet / current-density picture that underpins feature formation.

Measurement and mapping concepts alongside nozzle / machining-zone schematics used to reason about controllability and outcomes.

If you tell me which figure belongs to which paper (Bisterov / Speidel / Mitchell‑Smith), I’ll add “Related paper” links under each image.