Metrics and methods for resilience-aware design of process systems: advances and challenges

Abstract

To address potential disruptions that arise from internal and external sources, chemical processes need to be designed with the capacity to withstand and recover from disturbances — often referred to as resilience. To integrate resilience capabilities into process design and operations, it is imperative to be cognizant of contributing factors and develop, determine, and incorporate quantitative resilience performance indicators. This paper provides a brief review of recent progress in conceptual frameworks and quantitative metrics for analyzing and designing resilience-aware process systems. Furthermore, key research opportunities in the field of process system resilience, namely the challenges in integrating resilience throughout the life cycle and across the spatiotemporal scales of a process system, are discussed.