Critical Industrial Facilities Research Articles

СРАВНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ РЕШЕНИЙ КЛАССА DDP ДЛЯ ЗАЩИТЫ ИНФРАСТРУКТУРЫ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ

The article considers the use and implementation of modern solutions in the field of deception technologies in the information infrastructure of critical industrial facilities. Their advantages and key features of use are analyzed, the principle of operation of the distributed infrastructure of false goals is considered. A comparative analysis of six different DDP class solutions of foreign and domestic manufacturers is carried out according to four criteria: the possibility of agentless placement of baits; types of traps and baits for industrial systems; information security systems with which the solution interacts; FulloS trapping possibilities. The approach to the implementation of DDP class solutions to ensure the information security of critical industrial facilities is substantiated. Within the framework of the considered approach, the implementation is proposed in the form of five major stages of setting up and implementing a distributed structure of false goals. The prospects of using DDP solutions to improve the safety of industrial enterprises are evaluated and an example of the effective use of the DDP class solution for an industrial facility is given. The prospects of using a distributed structure of false targets for critical industrial facilities are proposed to be assessed by the threat modeling, threat risk assessment and determination of the average number of information security incidents.

The use of UAV interceptors to increase the detection range of intruder drones

Various threats of terrorist attacks on the social infrastructure arise due to strengthening of terrorist organizations, both in the context of their coming to power in certain countries (Afghanistan), and their association with the drug business, which significantly increases the financing of terrorist structures, allowing them to acquire modern weapons. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are cheap, readily available and capable of carrying containers of lethal agents, what make them a common means of terrorist attack. Effective protection of critical industrial facilities from UAV terrorist attacks is an important task for improving systems and means of electronic warfare against terrorism.
 This paper considers the possibility of detecting an UAV near a critically important industrial facility using small-sized radar stations (SRS) placed on board of UAV-interceptors. Typically, SRS are placed on board drones for radio mapping of the terrain, operational-tactical and reconnaissance combat missions, and rescue operations. The possibility of using SRS on board interceptor drones to detect intruder drones as an additional channel to a remote radar channel has not been considered anywhere before.
 The paper provides a review of existing small-sized radar stations (SRS) that can be used or are used on-board of UAVs, as well as a review of existing UAV-interceptors. It is shown that UAV-interceptors equipped with SRS can be used to fly around the area about a critical industrial facility, by analogy with overflights performed by multicopters around agricultural areas, with recharging in specially equipped places for this at different distances from the control center and from critical industrial facility.
 A method is proposed to increase the existing optical and acoustic channel for detecting an intruder drone by an order of magnitude, and the radar channel by 5 km, if not only small-sized radar, but also optoelectronic with the acoustic UAV detection system are installed on the UAV-interceptor with the integrated use of these channels with remote radar UAV detection system.

Study of Local Seismic Events in Lithuania and Adjacent Areas Using Data from the PASSEQ Experiment

The territory of Lithuania and adjacent areas of the East European Craton have always been considered a region of low seismicity. Two recent earthquakes with magnitudes of more than 5 in the Kaliningrad District (Russian Federation) on 21 September 2004 motivated re-evaluation of the seismic hazard in Lithuania and adjacent territories. A new opportunity to study seismicity in the region is provided by the PASSEQ (Pasive Seismic Experiment) project that aimed to study the lithosphere–asthenosphere structure around the Trans-European Suture Zone. Twenty-six seismic stations of the PASSEQ temporary seismic array were installed in the territory of Lithuania. The stations recorded a number of local and regional seismic events originating from Lithuania and adjacent areas. This data can be used to answer the question of whether there exist seismically active tectonic zones in Lithuania that could be potentially hazardous for critical industrial facilities. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find any natural tectonic seismic events in Lithuania and to obtain more general view of seismicity in the region. In order to do this, we make a manual review of the continuous data recorded by the PASSEQ seismic stations in Lithuania. From the good quality data, we select and relocate 45 local seismic events using the well-known LocSAT and VELEST location algortithms. In order to discriminate between possible natural events, underwater explosions and on-shore blasts, we analyse spatial distribution of epicenters and temporal distribution of origin times and perform both visual analysis of waveforms and spectral analysis of recordings. We show that the relocated seismic events can be grouped into five clusters (groups) according to their epicenter coordinates and origin and that several seismic events might be of tectonic origin. We also show that several events from the off-shore region in the Baltic Sea (at the coasts of the Kaliningrad District of the Russian Federation) are non-volcanic tremors, although the origin of these tremor-type events is not clear.

Fire and explosion hazard of suspended ultrafine dust

A review is presented of explosion statistics and reasons for them in critical industrial facilities of enterprises in various branches of Russian industry. Phases of substances are graded with respect to the danger of an explosion occurring and factors are analyzed that determine a very fine substances as dangerous. Results are shown graphically from experiments of the Norwegian professor Rolf Eckhoff for a study of the dependence of fire hazard indices for suspended dust on particle diameter. A logical task is set for the requirement of resolving questions for providing the safety of production processes connected with handling nanoparticles.

Design basis earthquakes for critical industrial facilities and their characteristics, and the Southern Hyogo prefecture earthquake, 17 January 1995

Abstract This paper deals with how to establish the concept of the design basis earthquake (DBE) for critical industrial facilities such as nuclear power plants in consideration of disasters such as the Southern Hyogo prefecture earthquake, the so-called Kobe earthquake in 1995. The author once discussed various DBEs at the 7th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. At that time, the author assumed that the strongest effective PGA would be 0.7 G, and compared the values of accelerations of a structure obtained by various codes in Japan and other countries. The maximum PGA observed by an instrument at the Southern Hyogo prefecture earthquake in 1995 exceeded the previous assumption of the author, even though the results of the previous paper had been pessimistic. According to the experience of the Kobe event, the author will point out the necessity of the third earthquake S s adding to S 1 and S 2 of previous DBEs.