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Chemical Process Systems (CPSs) exhibit complex characteristics and inherent dangers that can lead to serious accidents when disrupted. Accurate quantification and assessment of system resilience are crucial for effectively responding to potential undesired events. To address thi ...
In recent years, the relationship between academia and the fossil fuel industry has become a focal point of intense debate. This concern arises from the fear that corporate funding might skew research activities. A significant development in this area is the adoption of policies ...
The evolving energy landscape in Europe is showing concrete signals that hydrogen will play a central role in the energy transition scenario. In this light, a report of the European Hydrogen Backbone pinpoints no less than forty existing projects focused on the commissioning of s ...

Integrating Process Safety and Process Security Risk Management

Practitioner Insights for a Resilience-Oriented Framework

Integrating process safety and process security risk management is increasingly essential for enhancing resilience in the chemical process industry. This study addresses how practitioners perceive the integration of these two domains, identifying key benefits, barriers, and strat ...

Enhancing pipeline system resilience

A reliability-centric approach

Pipelines are the most widely used system for transporting liquid and gaseous energy materials, but throughout their lifespan, they are exposed to various detrimental factors, such as corrosion and deviations in process variables. In recent years, the concept of resilience has ga ...
Decisions in complex systems need support from formal risk management. Traditional risk management, based on a "rational" idea of risk (the actual damage linked with probabilities), often diverges from public perceptions, leading to conflict between expert-led evaluations and soc ...
The domino effect in chemical industrial parks represents a complex phenomenon where accidents such as leaks, fires, and explosions can occur either simultaneously or in sequence. The progression of domino accidents is highly uncertain, making it difficult to anticipate the spati ...

Dynamic and integrated safety and security barrier management

A new framework to manage major event risks in chemical plants

Chemical process industries are threatened by accidental and intentional major events that may lead to catastrophic consequences due to hazardous materials' production, operation, and storage. Remarkably, the digitalization of industrial facilities brings emerging cyber-physical ...
Corrosion is a deterioration phenomenon of buried long-distance pipelines involving complex dynamic processes. The complexity poses challenges to addressing the safety concerns caused by corrosion. In recent years, the concept of resilience has been introduced into the assessment ...
Understanding and enhancing the resilience of transport networks against climate-induced extreme events, such as wildfires, is critical to minimizing disruptions and their societal impacts. In this context, resilience is essential for effectively coping with these hazards, as roa ...
Seaport infrastructure requires considerable resources and time for a full recovery from accidents caused by hazardous cargo. Despite their severity, the risk to seaport infrastructure from hazardous cargo operations has been insufficiently explored. This study aims to fill that ...
Recent increases in climate-induced natural disasters have amplified the risk of Natech (natural hazard-triggered technological) accidents, particularly in the chemical industry. These emergencies, characterized by their urgency and resource constraints, pose significant challeng ...
Chemical facilities face threats from accidental and intentional events, including the rising concern of cyber-physical (C2P) attacks in the digitized industrial control system era. Addressing major accident risks from safety hazards and C2P attacks requires an immediate unified ...
Major accidents in the chemical process industry occur with low frequency but may lead to severe damages affecting a myriad of stakeholders. Managing major accident risks of chemical industrial systems is regulated in the Seveso Directive of the European Union. However, the conve ...
Emergency response is a procedural safety barrier of paramount importance for the mitigation of fire scenarios and the prevention of escalation. However, in Natech scenarios, emergency response may be affected by the natural event impacting the site. Indeed, when contrasting Nate ...
This paper presents a systematic literature review of risk assessment methods in the chemical process industry (CPI), focusing on process safety, process security, and resilience. We analyzed peer-reviewed articles from 2000 to 2022 using the PRISMA methodology and identified twe ...
Risk is a complex and multi-faceted concept defined and addressed differently across disciplines. Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the need for a more comprehensive and integrated risk perspective combining insights from various disciplines. However, those works ha ...
As supply chains in today's world become more complex and fragile, enhancing the resilience of maritime transport is increasingly imperative. The COVID-19 epidemic in 2020 exposed the vulnerability of existing supply chains, causing substantial impacts such as supply shortages, p ...
Background: Human errors are widely acknowledged as the primary cause of structural failures in the construction industry. Research has found that such errors arise from the situation created by human factors and organizational factors embedded in the task context. However, these ...
In the built environment, often too much focus is put on compliance instead of seeking the optimal fire-safety solution for the building. Because of a lack of tangible incentives for building owners, the benefits of implementing fire safety measures and their societal contributio ...