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Energy, economic and environmental analysis of balneotherapy
Miček, Denis ; Horák, Petr (referee) ; Hirš, Jiří (advisor)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to point out European Union´s goals such as low carbon economy, mainly future increasing the use of renewable sources as a potential source of energy. Slovak republic has due to its position in central Europe, rich in natural healing sources of water, which are considered as the most perspective sources of renewable energy in this country. The problem was solved as energy, economic and environmental analysis of Balneotherapy at Slovak Heath Spa Piešťany a.s. This analyzation was provided by real experimental measurement of temperature and flow rate and computational simulation of technological devices in opened natural healing water system. Experimentally measured data were afterwards use for elaboration conceptual design of new technological devices in order to increase efficiency of collection energy from potential renewable source of energy. The research shows that with help of new design technological devices connected to existing ones will be possible to cool down temperature of hot natural healing water from 67 °C to 21 °C, which decrease operation costs of Balneotherapy for more than 1 414 € per day. By Slovak republic entering to European Union it was necessary to accept global goals of low carbon economy. This diploma thesis provides an attention on potential energy in natural healing sources of water as renewable source of energy and helps Slovak Health Spa Piešťany to decrease amount of green-house gases released to atmosphere by efficient increasing the use of energy potential in natural healing source of water.
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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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Energy, economic and environmental analysis of balneotherapy
Miček, Denis ; Horák, Petr (referee) ; Hirš, Jiří (advisor)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to point out European Union´s goals such as low carbon economy, mainly future increasing the use of renewable sources as a potential source of energy. Slovak republic has due to its position in central Europe, rich in natural healing sources of water, which are considered as the most perspective sources of renewable energy in this country. The problem was solved as energy, economic and environmental analysis of Balneotherapy at Slovak Heath Spa Piešťany a.s. This analyzation was provided by real experimental measurement of temperature and flow rate and computational simulation of technological devices in opened natural healing water system. Experimentally measured data were afterwards use for elaboration conceptual design of new technological devices in order to increase efficiency of collection energy from potential renewable source of energy. The research shows that with help of new design technological devices connected to existing ones will be possible to cool down temperature of hot natural healing water from 67 °C to 21 °C, which decrease operation costs of Balneotherapy for more than 1 414 € per day. By Slovak republic entering to European Union it was necessary to accept global goals of low carbon economy. This diploma thesis provides an attention on potential energy in natural healing sources of water as renewable source of energy and helps Slovak Health Spa Piešťany to decrease amount of green-house gases released to atmosphere by efficient increasing the use of energy potential in natural healing source of water.
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Current status of the European energy union
Stejskal, Tomáš ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Němcová, Ingeborg (referee)
The Master's thesis deals with the current status of the European energy union. The main objective is to evaluate achievements and failures of the European energy union in the first two years after its kick-off. This union was established in order to overcome difficulties which arise during the energy policy realization. High dependence on imports of primary raw materials and low interconnectivity among member states belong to these difficulties. This union is a long-term project which is at the very beginning of its development.
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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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Transition to Low-carbon Energy in the EU: British Concept
Kotík, Jan ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Němcová, Ingeborg (referee)
This Master Thesis deals with the issue of transition to low-carbon energy in the European Union, with an example of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The topic is divided into three parts. Firstly, the energy sector in the EU is described in the context of environmental targets, institutional framework, international Paris agreement and electricity price factors. Secondly, the British concept of transition to low-carbon energy is described, following a similar line from the first chapter. Last but not least, the third section uses the data and information provided in the first two sections to create a complex picture. Compatibility of the British concept with the EU policies is discussed, furthermore the meaning of Paris agreement for the British model is described, then the consequences of the British concept on the electricity prices are shown, finally the challenges for the British energy sector are considered. The main contribution of this thesis is statistical comparison of energy in the EU and UK and finding the connection between international events (Paris agreement), regional priorities (EU), national political representation and national interest groups in terms of creating energy policy in the UK.
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