Extensive computational experiments were conducted in support of the cross-flow geometry development for the MCFC stack. The oxidant flow distribution optimization was used to mitigate the hardware temperature "hot-spot". The optimization process was subjected to multiple constraints resulting from the oxidant utilization, pressure drop limitations and constant oxidant inlet flow. Results to date show that oxidant inlet flow rates can be specified in such a way that the maximum cell hardware temperature decreases by more than 25 K while the total inlet flow rate remains constant.
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