First EAGE Online Workshop on Water Footprint

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the energy potential of the mouth of the Dique channel in the bay of Cartagena to meet the energy demand and analyze its impact on the town of Pasacaballos, evaluating through hydrodynamic models, the behavior of the salinity concentration and saline gradient in the bay of Cartagena in relation to the discharge behavior of the flow, magnitude and direction of the wind, sea level variation and bathymetry, in addition to a meteorological estimation over time. Another aspect to be evaluated is the chemical analysis of the water at the mouth, to determine salinity, temperature and turbidity, as well as possible contaminants that may affect the osmosis membrane. The methodological development will allow concluding the feasibility of using sea energy by saline gradient to meet the energy demand in the township of Pasacaballos, from the results obtained, it will be concluded with the construction and analysis of the hydrodynamic model, which allows understanding the spatiotemporal changes of the physical processes observed in the field data and comparing them in relation to the results obtained in other mouths of Colombia [ 24 ].