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.

为了解决内部和外部来源引起的潜在干扰，化学工艺的设计需要具有承受干扰和从干扰中恢复的能力——通常称为弹性。为了将弹性能力整合到流程设计和操作中，必须认识到影响因素并开发、确定和纳入定量的弹性绩效指标。本文简要回顾了用于分析和设计弹性感知流程系统的概念框架和定量指标的最新进展。此外，还讨论了过程系统弹性领域的关键研究机会，即在过程系统的整个生命周期和跨时空尺度上整合弹性的挑战。