History of the Willocx Engine

The name of the Willocx engine follows the classic engineering tradition of eponymous naming. It comes directly from the surname of its inventor, Stéphane Willocx. The scientific and patent registries paired his surname with the word "engine" to classify the “Motor with differential evaporation pressures“.

Like the Diesel Engine (named after Rudolf Diesel), the Stirling Engine (named after Robert Stirling), the Wilcox Engine (named after Stephen Wilcox, Jr.), and the Rankine cycle (named after William John Macquorn Rankine) the nomenclature serves as a historical stamp for his specific thermodynamic breakthrough. 

Stephane (Steve) Willocx, was concerned about the waste of energy escaping from the traditional thermal engines running at high temperatures. For around two hundred years, the engineers used the formula of Carnot based exclusively on temperatures to calculate the efficiency of the thermal engines so the engineers were convinced that an engine couldn't run at low temperature. Inventions are coming often by people thinking "out of the box" and  Steve noticed that a great quantity of low temperature of energy can be used instead of a small quantity of high temperature of energy to run an engine.

His first low temperature engine prototype was publicly exposed at the Neophilia Inventions Exhibition in Colmar France where the WIllocx Engine earned the Gold Medal primarily due to its disruptive ecological potential. It can act as a zero-emission green energy harvester capable of generating electricity from water-air interfaces without consuming cooling water.

Since the first slow prototype demonstrating the basic performances of the engine, the inventor patented adjacent technologies improving the efficiency of the system allowing some prototypes to run at 600 RPM.