Techno-economic analysis on proton conductor ceramic based technologies for various materials, configurations, applications and products

The increasing global energy consumption, particularly from fossil fuels, has led to environmental concerns linked with the increasing global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Renewable energy sources offer a solution but are often intermittent and lack programmability. To tackle this issue, protonic ceramic cells (PCCs) are emerging as a promising technology and also as an alternative to traditional solid oxide cells (SOCs). This study presents a techno-economic analysis of PCCs' systems for various applications and scenarios depending also on future scale up and improvements. Different materials, cell architectures, and configurations were considered. The results, evaluated especially through economic indicators such as the levelized costs of the outputs, demonstrate the potential of PCCs as a clean and sustainable energy conversion technology. Positive results were reached with both current and improved future performances, finally comparing them with the ones of the current available SOCs technology.