Resilience Engineering Strategy Applied to an Existing Process Plant

Resilience of a system can be defined as a set of behaviours and strategies allowing the creation of a proactive defence against disturbances and interruptions that threaten the system integrity. In analogy with the widely applied methods concerning risk assessment and inherent safety, in this paper...

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Published in:Chemical engineering transactions 2014-01, Vol.36
Main Authors: E. Palazzi, F. Curro', A.P. Reverberi, B. Fabiano
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Resilience of a system can be defined as a set of behaviours and strategies allowing the creation of a proactive defence against disturbances and interruptions that threaten the system integrity. In analogy with the widely applied methods concerning risk assessment and inherent safety, in this paper we propose a semi-quantitative resilience evaluation framework. Starting from the basic dynamic concept defining resilience as the ability of a whole process system to cope with adverse events, a set of resilience indicators is presented to determine how resilient a process is, both from the technical and the organizational viewpoints. As a case-study, the approach is applied to an existing integral process industry, in order to manage risks through prevention, reduction and mitigation by focusing on the so-called detection potential factor.
ISSN:2283-9216
DOI:10.3303/CET1436084