POMPANO BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW) has completed the installation and successfully powered-up its initial waste heat power generator at the facility of its customer, Bent Glass Design. The event marks an important milestone for Cyclone, as well as demonstrating the viability of small-scale waste heat recovery as a clean, renewable power source capable of off-setting fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Cyclone’s waste heat power generator – called the WHE-GEN-10 – utilizes the company’s scalable piston-based waste heat engine (WHE) to power an electric generator, up to 10kW per unit. This first WHE-GEN-10 is currently converting exhaust heat from Bent Glass Design’s furnace into grid-tied electric power. When fully optimized, this alternative power source can help reduce peak electricity usage and corresponding demand charges at industrial facilities. Small-scale waste heat recovery has been an elusive goal since the 1970s, primarily because the turbines capable of powering these systems required massive amounts of thermal energy to be cost effective. The WHE-GEN-10 is designed to provide an efficient, revenue producing green power system for tens of thousands of smaller industrial facilities in the U.S. and around the world.
