International Conference on Metals and Hydrogen

We are pleased to announce that OCAS and Ghent University are joining forces for the fifth edition of the International Conference on Metals and Hydrogen. SteelyHydrogen 2025 provides a unique environment to share and exchange experiences on the link between metals and the various aspects of hydrogen: hydrogen-microstructure interactions, hydrogen embrittlement, hydrogen detection, etc.

Since its first edition, the spirit of the conference has been in keeping a balance between fundamental and industrial aspects. Whereas early editions focussed mainly on steel substrates, the scope has been broadened to other metals such as Al, Ni and Ti, with revealing scientific contributions and new applications being addressed.

Given today’s interest in hydrogen as energetic vector, and the maturity of some technologies becoming reality, the SteelyHydrogen forum in 2025 will again pay specific attention to the role of hydrogen in the global energy transition. Particular focus will be on material challenges.

As such, the scientific scope of the conference can be summarised by the following topic categories:

  • Hydrogen embrittlement: effect of hydrogen on mechanical properties

    • Aqueous environment
    • Gas environment
    • HIC & Stress Sulphide Cracking (SSC)
    • Metallurgical influences
    • Mitigation actions (microstructural design, coatings, etc.)
    • Mechanisms

  • Modelling the hydrogen-metal interactions and/or the hydrogen embrittlement from atomic to meso-scale

  • Advanced methods to characterise hydrogen

  • Hydrogen-metal interactions: hydrogen activity, diffusion, trapping, etc.

  • Surfaces and coatings for metallic substrates in hydrogen environment

  • Industrial hydrogen challenges

  • Future material challenges for hydrogen applications

  • Other

Conference

Both UGent and OCAS are looking forward to organising SteelyHydrogen 2025. Do not miss this edition on the role of hydrogen and its interaction with metals on the energy transition.

Programme

SteelyHydrogen Conference 2025 programme is now available.

Venue

SteelyHydrogen 2025 welcomes its participants in the Handelsbeurs, in historic Ghent.

Handelsbeurs

Kouter 29

9000 Gent

Deadlines

  • 30 June 2025

  • 01 July 2025

  • 11 October 2025

  • End early bird registration

  • Full paper submission for oral or poster contribution

  • Conference proceedings available for registered participants

Best paper: “Under what conditions can we safely transport hydrogen in natural gas pipelines?“, E. Martínez-Pañeda, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Best poster: “The hydrogen energy “fingerprint” – a new way to interpret thermal desorption data”, P. Hammer 1,2 , O.Peil 2, L.Vandewalle 3, K.Verbeken 3, T.Depover 3, V.I.Razumovskiy 1,2.
1. Christian Doppler Laboratory for digital material design guidelines for mitigation of alloy embrittlement, Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH
2. Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH
3. Department of Materials, Textiles amd Chemical Engineering, Ghent University.

Honorary Lecture Award: “Sustained Load Cracking Thresholds and Fracture Toughness for Low-alloy and C-Mn Steels“, Dr.Brian Somerday, Somerday Consulting, LCC Wayne, Pennsylvania USA

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