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Aspects of an experimental solution with the use of geothermal energy in Balneotherapy
Miček, Denis ; Horák, Petr (referee) ; Kabele, Karel (referee) ; Hirš, Jiří (advisor)
The Earth, our home planet is world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. We, the humans always headed up to reach set up goals, innovate our technologies and way of living. The fact that, we had never been aware of is that this race to our bright and modern future is destroying our home. By this time, the global temperature arises by 1,9 oC since 1880, 427 gigatons of ice sheets were melted and there are 414 ppm of carbon dioxide particles in our atmosphere. As the trend is changing and we are above to think in green way of living, there is necessity to set up roadmaps and actions plans to stop, eventually decrease the damage which was already caused. The European union started to measure and provide actions plans to decrease the pollution and production of greenhouse gases since the year 1990 – which was set up as reference year for comparison to progress. This arrangement forced the countries to start evaluating the current statuses of their public and industrial sectors in terms of climate changes and provide climate plans for reducing the greenhouse gases. The most important part of climate action plans is to involve the renewable sources of energy into all public and industrial sectors and in this way start the green way of living. Therefore, the investigation and proper understanding of this problems must be the main focus of technical universities and scientific sectors. This dissertation thesis is the summit of 8 years studies and investigation in field of renewable sources of energy, mainly focused on geothermal energy which production in year 2002 was 0 GWh. The main goal is to experimentally analyze designed solutions, elaborated within master and bachelor thesis in real operation of Balneotherapy departments at Slovak Health Spa Piestany, Slovakia from energy, economic and environmental point of view, to set up energy, aqua management and fully understand the way of involvin
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The energy potential of pools that use geothermal energy as a natural heating source of water
Miček, Denis ; Horák, Petr (referee) ; Hirš, Jiří (advisor)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to point out European Unions – low carbon economy, based on future using of renewable sources as a potential source of energy. Slovak republic is due to its position in central Europe rich in natural healing sources of water which are considered as the most perspective renewable source in this country. Chosen problem I decide to solve on specific part of Slovak Health Spa Piešťany, especially on Mirror pools located at Balnea Centre on Spa Island. According to measurements of temperature and discharge of natural healing source of water poured out of the Mirror pools obtained from Measurement and Regulation dispatching, I design the system which use this potential energy as a renewable source of heat. The research point out that obtaining energy from renewable sources such as natural healing sources of water are efficient and economical. With the help of designed system I declared the ability of using 98 % of this renewable source of energy, which reduced the costs of operation of the Slovak Health Spa by 216 € per one day. In spite of the fact that European Union accepted low carbon economy, by which countries have to reduce the amount of releasing Green-house gases over the 80 % , the results of this bachelor thesis allows us to reduce amount of gas used nowadays during the operation of Balneological departments and help us to fulfill this European Union idea.
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Clients´ Perception of Spa Services in Aurora Spa
KROČÁK, Ladislav
An importance of spa services is especially in the medical treatment, but their economic significance is also very substantial. It significantly affects investment activities and an employment and it contributes to a regional development. Aurora Spa in Třeboň specializes in treating of musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatic diseases, post-traumatic and post-operative conditions and overall recondition of the body. Spa services in Třeboň have been, since a long time ago, associated with a natural healing source, which is abundant in this locality ? a boggy soil. Aurora Spa is not determined only for ill clients, but it is frequently visited by healthy people who undergo reconditioning and relaxation stays. The current trend heads toward to the fact that in the future the spa care covered from the public health insurance, will be in some way limited and clients will have to pay either a part or the entire treatment from their own financial funds. For this reason it is necessary to concentrate with spa service operators on a great clients´ satisfaction with their spa stay, so that they would return to the spa facility. Since I have worked for five years in the area of providing of the treatment services, I followed my bachelor thesis ?Clients´ satisfaction with spa services? by this diploma thesis, in order to re-map the clients´ satisfaction with services provided in above mentioned spa. I wanted to find out whether clients´ attitudes to the provided services had significantly changed from the research in 2009 year in my bachelor thesis. I used for the research the same questionnaire as in the research in 2009 year. 220 respondents were chosen for the research in the period of September 2011; 110 respondents had their stay covered by some of health insurance companies, either in a form of a complex or a contributory spa care and 110 respondents paid their treatment stay from their own funds as private payers. I supposed that men would be more satisfied than women and clients to whom some of the health insurance companies paid the stay, would be more satisfied than clients paying the stay from their own funds. After processing the data, there were not found out any significant differences in the satisfaction between these groups of respondents and in comparison with the research in the bachelor thesis from 2009 year there were not apparent any significant variations in the clients´ satisfaction with the services provided, which confirms, that the spa services in Aurora Spa are still on a very high level. Results of this diploma thesis can be used by employees of Aurora Spa to enhance the quality of provided spa service in all areas and to improve staff access to their clients.
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