Research projects to prevent the breakdown of supply systems
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Efficient utility infrastructures are vital for society and industry. These projects examine security scenarios in which critical supply infrastructures such as energy, water and food supply are under threat or affected by attacks, major incidents, or natural disasters. Key areas of funding are research into the prevention and early identification of threats, the prevention of cascade processes, crisis management through prompt and efficient security and isolation measures, and the development of an efficient emergency supply service.
Below please find selected research projects. More research projects can be found here: http://www.bmbf.de/de/13827.php
Scenario-based fundamentals and innovative methods to reduce power supply failure risk, bearing in mind their impact on the population. The main objective of the project is to reduce current and future disruptions in the power supply system. The GRASB research project is working with power plant operators to jointly identify critical points in the power supply infrastructure and classify them according to various types of risk. Special consideration will be taken of areas which involve neuralgic points at which the interconnectivity of various infrastructures could lead to the failure of several power plants or other utility infrastructures (cascade effect).
Learning information infrastructures for crisis management using the example of power supply. Electricity is essential to many other supply systems, including heating installations and petrol stations. Although power outages are rather rare, they usually take people unprepared when they do occur and cause large-scale damage. In such an event information and communication are crucial factors in the rapid restoration of power supply. InfoStrom therefore aims to develop a decentralized IT-supported security platform that links all relevant stakeholders such as energy utilities, crisis task forces, fire brigades, and the police.
Energy and fuel supply for petrol stations and stand-by generators in a power outage. Nowadays virtually all critical infrastructures depend on an intact and operational electricity supply as only few of them dispose of an adequate number of stand-by generators. Petrol stations generally do not have an emergency supply system in place. In the event of a power disruption for an extended period of time, fuel supply would come to a complete standstill. Petrol stations would not be able to supply fuel for fire engines and ambulances or for the stand-by generators of critical infrastructures. This cascade effect is the starting point scenario for the TankNotStrom collaborative project . The overall goal is to devise a management and logistics system that can guarantee fuel supply in a power outage. The system should also ensure that critical infrastructures (e.g. hospitals) and the operational capability of rescue teams are unaffected in the event of power outage over an extended period of time.
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