RAPID: Hurricane Harvey Impacts on Interdependent Fuel and Commodity Chemical Infrastructures

1760459（艾伦）。德克萨斯州东南部，包括休斯顿，是全球燃料精炼和化学制造中心。位于德克萨斯州和路易斯安那州墨西哥湾沿岸沿着的高度集中和高度网络化的燃料和化学品制造基础设施的中断可能对国家和全球燃料和商品化学品市场产生深远的影响。这些潜在干扰的范围和程度基本上没有被绘制出来，迫切需要收集有关干扰的数据。这项工作将对哈维等墨西哥湾沿岸飓风对燃料和商品化学基础设施造成的潜在破坏进行定量了解。还将审查可减少潜在影响的恢复和缓解措施。该项目将创建和部署决策支持工具，以提高决策者对燃料、管道和商品化学品制造基础设施相互依存性质的理解。将针对多个受众，包括研究人员，政策制定者和公众。将采用决策支持工具来审查有关相互依存的重要基础设施的恢复和减缓决定。

1760459 (Allen). Southeast Texas, including Houston, is a global center for fuel refining and chemical manufacturing. Disruption of the highly concentrated and highly networked fuel and chemical manufacturing infrastructures located along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast can have far reaching implications for national and global fuel and commodity chemical markets. The scope and magnitude of these potential disruptions are largely unmapped and the need for data collection on the disruptions is urgent. This work will develop a quantitative understanding of the potential disruptions to fuel and commodity chemical infrastructures that result from Gulf Coast hurricanes such as Harvey. Also examined will be recovery and mitigation measures that could reduce potential impacts. This project will create and deploy decision support tools that will improve decision-makers' understanding of the interdependent nature of fuel, pipeline and commodity chemical manufacturing infrastructures. Multiple audiences will be targeted including researchers, policy-makers, and the general public. Decision support tools will be applied to examine recovery and mitigation decisions concerning critical interdependent infrastructures.