POMPANO BEACH, FL--(Marketwired - Aug 6, 2014) - Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced today that it has added Peter Platell PhD, a second generation engineer with over 30 years' experience in Steam and Cogeneration Technology, to its team of growing sales professionals to help introduce our technology to the European markets.

Peter Platell currently serves as CEO of his Company Ranotor Utvecklings AB and is involved with an EU combidiesel venture and projects of waste heat recovery for heavy duty trucks and passenger cars for leading automotive manufacturers in Europe. He will be Cyclone's sales representative in Europe. With Peter's extensive experience in engineering he will focus on licensee development, distribution and integration of Cyclone's engines and products.

Frankie Fruge, President of Cyclone, stated: "We are very pleased to have Peter on our team, and have already seen results from the experience and expertise he has brought to the Company. The success of Cyclone's International market is going to depend on professionals of Peter's caliber to represent us. For a small company to have someone as high caliber as Peter to join the Cyclone Team is an enormous boost."

Mr. Platell stated: "I am very pleased to join Cyclone's team. My responsibilities are to obtain licenses for use of Cyclone's Technology and integration into customers' systems. In my years of developing steam technology including a very compact water lubricated steam engine I knew when I discovered Cyclone's Heat Regenerative Engine that they were light years ahead of everyone in the emerging 'green' steam power technology field. This is an opportunity for Ranotor steam products to integrate with the Cyclone engine for my customers and future licensee."

Cyclone Engine -- an all-fuel, clean-tech engine with the power and versatility to run everything from waste energy electric generators and solar thermal systems to cars, trucks and locomotives, the patented Cyclone Engine is an eco-friendly external combustion engine, ingeniously designed to achieve high thermal efficiencies through a compact heat-regenerative process, and to run on virtually any fuel -- including bio-diesels, syngas or solar -- while emitting fewer greenhouse gases and irritating pollutants into the air. The Cyclone Engine was recognized by Popular Science Magazine as the Invention of the Year for 2008, visit www.cyclonepower.com.