EnWave Announces Successful quantaREV(TM) Scale-up

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 16, 2012) - EnWave Corporation (TSX VENTURE:ENW)(FRANKFURT:E4U) ("EnWave" or "the Company") today announced the successful scale-up of their quantaREV™ technology to a five foot wide prototype engine. The technological principles of the scaled-up engine will now be used to design and construct a second generation quantaREV™ machine capable of producing up to 500 kilograms of dried product per hour. This machine is expected to be completed before the end of 2012 and could potentially be used commercially by a current or future partner.

During the past month, EnWave had been testing a single 9.6 kW microwave module for microwave field uniformity and heating distribution. Based on these successful tests, combined with interest from multi-national collaborators, EnWave plans to begin construction of the second generation quantaREV™ machine in the second quarter of 2012, with expected completion in the final quarter. This scaled-up design is expected to have evaporation capacity of about 250 kilograms of water per hour, which translates to approximate output of 200-500 kilograms of dried product per hour, depending upon the amount of water to be removed.

"This significant technological milestone will allow us the opportunity to achieve throughput levels suitable for large scale processing of high quality food ingredients and snacks, as well as chemical and industrial applications," said Dr. Tim Durance, EnWave's Chairman and Co-CEO. "We are now one step closer to wide spread commercialization of REV technology."

The Company's first 18kW pilot-scale quantaREV™ machine was commissioned in October 2011 and since that time has been used to successfully conduct drying trials on a variety of fruit, vegetable and meat products in solid pieces, purees and in viscous liquid form.

About EnWave

EnWave Corporation is a Vancouver-based industrial technology company developing commercial applications for its proprietary Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) dehydration technology. In collaboration with an expanding list of multinational partners, including Nestlé, Kellogg's, Grupo Bimbo, Grimmway Farms, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Hormel, Bonduelle and Merck. EnWave is introducing REV as a new dehydration standard in the food and biological material sectors: potentially faster and cheaper than freeze drying, with better end product quality than air drying or spray drying.

EnWave currently has six REV platforms: commercial-scale nutraREV™ and MIVAP™ are used in the food industry to dry fruits, vegetables, meat, herbs and seafood quickly and at low-cost, while maintaining high levels of nutrition, taste, texture and colour. The Company is also developing powderREV™ for bulk dehydration of food cultures, probiotics and fine biochemicals such as enzymes; quantaREV™ for continuous, high-volume low-temperature drying of pastes, gels, liquids, or particulates; and bioREV™ and freezeREV™ as new methods to stabilize and dehydrate biopharmaceuticals such as vaccines and antibodies. More information about EnWave is available at www.enwave.net.

EnWave Corporation

Dr. Tim Durance, Chairman & Co-CEO

Safe Harbour for Forward-Looking Information Statements: This press release may contain forward-looking information based on management's expectations, estimates and projections. All statements that address expectations or projections about the future, including statements about the Company's strategy for growth, product development, market position, expected expenditures and financial results are forward-looking statements. These statements are not a guarantee of future performance and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. There is no guarantee that the Company's REV technology can or will improve processes in the target industry; even if the Company's REV technology can be used as described in this document, there is no guarantee that such use will result in orders for the Company's REV technology. All figures comparing REV technologies to freeze drying or other dehydration technologies are provided as examples of data obtained through the Company's own scientific and testing programs; each product must be tested individually to determine the benefits of using REV.