Resilience Engineering Strategy Applied to an Existing Process Plant
Palazzi, E.
Curro', F.
Reverberi, A.P.
Fabiano, B.
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Palazzi E., Curro’ F., Reverberi A., Fabiano B., 2014, Resilience Engineering Strategy Applied to an Existing Process Plant, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 36, 499-504.
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Abstract

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.
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