Riksa Suganda

Sukanegara 44 T: +6281342731312
Bandung, Indonesia E: riksa171290@gmail.com
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Education

University of Aberdeen, MSc Subsea Engineering, (2.2), 2015 – 2016

Awarded a full scholarship from Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP)
Courses include: Subsea Production System, Subsea Integrity, Subsea Control, Flow Assurance, Riser &
Hydrodynamics, Subsea Construction-Inspection & Maintenance, and Pipeline & Soil Mechanics
Dissertation: Sand Erosion Modelling on Two Elbow Gas Pipeline. Designed and performed the simulation of sand
erosion that occurred at two pipeline elbow using STAR CCM+ computational fluid dynamic software.

Bandung Institute of Technology, BSc Engineering Physics (2.1) 3.25/4.0, 2008-2013

Degree accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
Courses included: Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Material, Physics of Material, Heat & Mass
Transfer, Wave Phenomena, Energy System & Conversion, System Dynamic & Simulation, Measurement & Control,
Electric Circuit & Electronics
Research Project: Analysis of Flue Gas Flow on Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler Using Computational Fluid
Dynamics Method. Designed and conducted the simulation of flue gas flow on CFB Boiler using ANSYS CFX
computational fluid dynamic software. Being published in ANSYS Hall of Fame 2017 as one of runner up finalists.
Business Plan Project: Conducting a research of biomass generator including the development of the technology, the
way it works, the specification, and investment planning to build it as a start-up business in renewable energy. All of
those aspects were presented in a proposal submitted at business plan competition held by School Business
Management ITB. My group has reached the final as one of five finalists in the competition.

Relevant Work Experience

Spv Instrument & Control Maintenance, Pertamina Geothermal Energy, Lampung May 2017 – Nov 2017
I was assigned to take on projects of geothermal power plant. My job is to make maintenance plan on how
maintenance activity should be conducted, making maintenance schedule for equipment that needs to be repaired
or checked, supervising First Year Inspection of geothermal power plant and liaising with vendor and contractor.

Master Thesis Project, Norton Straw Consultant, Aberdeen June 2016 – Aug 2016
I was engaged as a mentee in collaboration with the consultant company which specialized in Computational Fluid
Dynamics analysis. This project is about sand erosion modelling which focused on the elbow of gas pipeline. I used
Star CCM+ software to perform the simulation. During the project, I was actively involved in discussion with two
engineers from the company as well as my lecturer supervisor to determine the way it is conducted.
Instrument Engineer, JFE, Jakarta May 2014 – May 2015 During
my one-year time of working there, I have been engaged in two FEED projects and a retrofitting project. Those two
FEED projects are about pipeline and fuel terminal construction respectively with I was involved in designing the
control system and plant instruments. I also got engaged in a project of retrofitting the system routing of an offshore
platform, which is to change the pneumatic to electricalconfiguration.

Bachelor Thesis Project, Alstom Power,Surabaya Jan 2013 – Mar 2013

I spent three months mainly in boiler department where I worked on the design analysis of the flow within the flue
gas pipe of the Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) boiler. I provided support to the boiler team as it also became my
final project assignment. I created the 3D model of the pipe and conducted a simulation of the work flow process of
the fluid inside using CFD method with ANSYS CFX software. The next step was to create the pipe optimumdesign
based on the data gained from thesimulation.

Internship, Tripatra, Jakarta Jun 2011 – Jul 2011

Carried out a month long project at EPC company where I was placed in Instrumentation & Control department. My
task was to produce instrument index document based on the Pertagas project and also to calculate and determining
instrument devices to be installed on the field.
Professional Memberships

• Student Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineer (SPE Aberdeen Chapter)

• Student Member of the Society for Underwater Technology(SUT)
• Student Member of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST)

Work-Related Skills

Leadership I have experiences in some leadership position during my college time and also in works.
Being an awardee of LPDP Scholarship put me in a position where leadership has taken
its part when I was abroad, which is representing your country at international event.
Meanwhile, I have been in leadership position when I was working as instrument
supervisor, leading a team of maintenance staff.

Analytical During my work as an instrument engineer, I have been involved at analyzing many
configuration design for instrument panel containing cabinet marshalling, junction box for
instrument wiring and making recommendations for my project team. In CFD, I am also
highly involved in analyzing cases with must be executed with correct judgments in the
form of equation methods with relevant parameters. I have developed these skills further
through complex practical and laboratory exercises during my bachelor and master
program. This included tension analysis on riser, stress analysis on pipeline, multiphase
flow analysis on flow assurance for flowline as well as the calculation and modelling for
those mentioned subjects.

Teamwork I have been involved in a variety of successful teams at work, during my studies, and
through my organization and outside event activities. At my previous work, I have been
appointed to do a field survey representing my department, instrument & control. During
that survey, I was involved in meeting with other departments and the client to formulate
the scope of work and discussing current conditions hence providing the client with the
best solution. During my bachelor studies, I also have been in charged as a chief for
graduation event in my faculty which highly contributed to the development of my
leadership skill.

Communication I have developed excellent written communication skills through my academic work. This
included the business proposal on my business plan project for which my group became a
finalist on the competition. I also frequently report and made presentations on my finding
data from the client to colleagues and managers.

Business Awareness I have taken part in business plan competition during my bachelor study for which
my group became a finalist. My idea was to create a start-up business in renewable
energy sector. This gave me a great experience and knowledge of how to do business
based on my engineering expertise.
Additional Work Experience

Volunteer, Free Medical Treatment Program Oct 2011 – Nov 2011

This event was a part of Engineering Physics Technology Festival event. My job as head of facility division was to
manage leasing facilities used in the main event and to delegate the task to my division member on how to execute
the plan on the day of the event commenced.

Interests & Achievements

Music Event Organizer: I have been involved in doing art decoration for music event during my school time. I was
a member of construction division who built the mascot and big statue as the event icon.
Reading: I enjoy reading about future engineering concept book as I idolize Elon Musk and Steve Jobs as two
visionaries whom I admire for their ability to think into the future.
References – Available on request
FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATION
RIKSA WISUDYA

FLUE GAS ANALYSIS ON CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED

BED BOILER USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID
DYNAMICS METHOD
CFB BOILER DIAGRAM
PIPING BOUNDARY

from
ECONOMIZER
OUTPUT
to
AIR REHEATER
INPUT
PROFILE

Flue Gas is combustion residual gas

from oil shale which will be dumped
out through stack

Flue gas still contains some pollutant

substances such as NO, SO2, and fly ash
which its intensities will be maximally
reduced through ash hopper and dust
precipitator
OBJECTIVE

Achieved By
Solid & Gas Equality of Equality of
Phase Debit Profile of Design
Separation Output Physics Modification
Parameter of Piping with
Baffle
Instalment
SYSTEM BOUNDARY

output

output

input
WORK STEPS

2. Meshing
1. 3D Design

4. Iteration Simulation

3. Domain Boundary
BAFFLE INSTALMENT

3 4

1. Blocking baffle : to block ash particle

2. Step baffle : to smoothen the riser path for reducing the
turbulence flow
3. Flow rectifier baffle : to rectify the gas flow into four region
4. Flow divider baffle : to divide the flow into two same output
debit on each out of four arms
ITERATION CONVERGENCE

System convergence has been

There is still stable, system fluctuation level
has been low
a fluctuation cycle
every 500 iteration

DEFAULT BAFFLE ADDED

X axis = number of iterations
Y axis = residual mass and momentum
Terms of convergence = graphic does not fluctuate (stable),
reaching residual value (measurement accuracy)
PRESSURE PROFILE

DEFAULT BAFFLE ADDED

Inequality of pressure profile Equality of pressure profile can

which was resulted from flow be seen almost on a whole body
direction and gravitation in starting from riser to outlet
natural way
FLOW PROFILE

DEFAULT BAFFLE ADDED

There are still turbulence flow which Flow profile can be seen almost
depicted by blue colour, this means on a whole body in a same
flow profile hasn’t been smooth and manner which is laminar
laminar
ASH PARTICLE PROFILE

DEFAULT BAFFLE ADDED

Ash particles look almost reach half Ash particles doesn’t appear to
of the riser hike up the riser

To separate solid and gas phase, the software

use gravitation force and the difference
between particle solid density and gas density
DEBIT OUTPUT PROFILE

DEFAULT BAFFLE ADDED

Different profile on each debit Up to 7 out of 8 outlets have
output states that there is no same almost similar debit profile
amount of gas on those outlet
QUALITATIVE COMPARISON

Default Baffle

Parameter Units Inlet Wall Ave Outlet Inlet Wall Ave Outlet

Tekanan Total Pa 115596 103078 103167 132806 105898 104010

Kecepatan m/s 19.1266 40.1045 40.4699 19.1338 60.0091 55.026
Kinetic Turb Res 4.05e-8 -8e-6 -7.12e-6 2.57e-11 -6.02e-6 4.29e-6
Ash Vol Fraction 1.05e-8 2.73e-10 0 3.77e-9 4.63e-11 0
Heat Flux W/m2 3.67e+6 -2763.81 -5.4e+6
Temperatur K 422.986 419.467 420.516
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Indonesia: CFB Product Line, PT. Alstom Power Energy Systems , 2010.

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Taylor & Francis Groups, 2006.

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Lagrangian And an Eulerian Formulation, Campana,Argentine: Center for
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Chapter 9 Turbulence Page 3,” ANSYS, Inc., 2010.

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loop Airlift Reactors, Lappeenranta: Teknologiapuistonkatu 2 B 28, 2010, p.
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ARIGATOU..
 Sand Erosion Analysis on Pipeline Bends
Sand erosion phenomena is often occurred at hydrocarbon pipeline especially at certain
locations such as at tee, choke, and elbow. This issue will lead to the pipeline failure in the
long run. To avoid this problem in the future, the erosion rate prediction technique is
deemed necessary to be performed in design phase before installing the pipeline in any
hydrocarbon facilities. This technique is consisted of two kind of methods, the empirical and
numerical method.

Subsea Manifold Piping System

The erosion rate on two-elbow pipeline is investigated in this thesis. Some formulas in DNV
for calculating the erosion rate in pipeline bend are used as references for both empirical
and numerical method. Microsoft Excel is used as a tool for doing the empirical method,
whereas the CFD software STAR CCM+ is used as computational tool for doing the numerical
method.

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding about the sand erosion phenomena in two-
elbow pipe, there are several comparisons of calculation performed in this work. They are
the comparison of erosion rate calculation between the first elbow and the second elbow,
the comparison of empirical and numerical calculation, the trend of erosion rate towards the
variation of pipe curvature radius and distance between elbow, and also the comparison of
erosion rate calculation between the S-bend and the U-bend.

The S-bend & U-bend Pipeline Radius of Pipe Curvature 3D Meshing

Sand Particle Tracking

After all calculations are conducted, it is known that the maximum erosion rate on the
second elbow is generally lower than the one on the first elbow, whereas the erosion pattern
on both elbow is also different from each other. Meanwhile, The CFD method is proven to be
more realistic rather than manual calculation using DNV formulas for two-elbow pipe. The
pipe curvature radius and distance between elbow also involve in affecting the change of
erosion rate on both elbow. Furthermore, the erosion rate result on the U-bend pipe is
greater than the one in S-bend pipe, whereas it can be concluded that the V-shaped erosion
scars are common to be found in flow consisted of two phases of substance.

Cross Section Erosion Rate Profile on The First Bend (Left) and The Second Bend (Right) of The S-bend
Pipe