This thesis deals with issues of heat pumps for air conditioning purposes. Mainly addresses itself with physical principles of heat pumps and with division of heat pumps according to natural resources, from which they draw heat energy. The next part of this thesis dedicates itself to experimental measurement of air conditioning unit, which in winter time operates on the principle of heat pump. The last part of this thesis is focused on design of two options of employment of heat pumps as sources of heat and coldness for a central air handling unit, which regulates incoming air for a dining room in a retirement home in Brno.