Reliability study of shutdown process through the analysis of decision making in chemical plants. Case of study: South America, Spain and Portugal

The paper is organized in six sections. Sections 2.1 and 2.2 present the model of the digital microfluidic biochip and the fault model, respectively. We introduce the sequencing graph model we use to capture a biochemical application in Section 2.3. We formulate the problem in Section 3 and illustrate the design tasks using several examples. The proposed ILP model and the Monte Carlo simulation approach used are presented in Section 4. The evaluation of the proposed approach is performed in Section 5. The last section presents our conclusions.