The 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Proton Conductors will take place in Copenhagen (Denmark) from September 14–19, 2025. The event will be held on the campus of our project partner the Technical University of Denmark.
The SSPC conference series began in the early 1980s as a Danish-French workshop, and is back to Denmark for the first time in over 40 years.
This conference provides an invaluable platform for presenting recent findings and exchanging ideas through oral and poster sessions. SSPC-22 will focus on fabrication and characterization of proton-conducting materials, including ceramics, oxyacids, salts, polymers, and glasses, and will address applications across a range of fields such as fuel cells, electrolyzer cells, membrane reactors, sensors, carbon capture and utilization, and Power-to-X technologies.
Thanks to the work of Prof. Ragnar Kiebach, Hy-SPIRE will participate in a thought-provoking conversation on the future of proton-conducting ceramics during the panel session entitled “Proton Conducting Ceramics: Where Do We Want to Go and What Could Stop Us?”
The session will feature core contributors from five major projects: Hy-SPIRE, PROTOSTACK, PEPPER, SINGLE and SUSTAINCELL.
The panel will be a great occasion for presenting these large research projects as well as sharing results and key insights from ongoing work.
These projects are supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members. Do you know them?
Hy-SPIRE project aims at further boosting the potential of SOEL by lowering the operating temperature below 700°C, and increasing its flexibility in order to fit with RES generation profiles. Within the project, novel cells will be developed towards achieving strict KPIs such as low degradation equal to or lower than 0.75% per 1,000 h, operation at high current densities ca. 1.2 A/cm2 and ability to operate dynamically and fast ramping.
PROTOSTACK is developing a new stack technology for direct production of pure electrochemically pressurized hydrogen at significantly better efficiencies than conventional electrolysis technologies.
The EU-funded PEPPER project is developing the next-generation electrolysis technology based on planar proton-conducting ceramic electrolysis cells (PCCELs).
The SINGLE project will enable ammonia as an energy carrier in the hydrogen value chain through demonstration of a Proton Ceramic Electrochemical Reactor (PCER) that integrates (i) ammonia dehydrogenation reaction, (ii) hydrogen separation, (iii) heat management and (iv) compression in a single stage.
The SUSTAINCELL project aims at supporting the European industry in the development of the next generation electrolyser and fuel cell technologies (both low and high temperature) by developing a sustainable European supply chain of materials, components and cells, significantly less reliant on critical raw materials (CRM), with lower environmental footprint and costs, and higher performance and durability than existing technologies.
More information on SSPC-22 at https://www.conferencemanager.dk/solid-stateprotonconductors
