Thesis "Management of Municipalities in the Sphere of Heating Industry" is concerned with assessment impact of ownership relationships in operation of heat management in municipality Bystřice nad Pernštejnem and comparison prices of heat energy of municipal or private heat companies. Diploma thesis is divided into two parts. First part is theoretical-methodological and it proceeds from professional literature and it describes municipal enterprise, methods and forms of municipal company management and thesis deals with legislation conditions that adjust energy market of which part is heat industry that can be line of municipal business. Practical part analyses business activities of Bystřice nad Pernštejnem in branch of heat producing and distribution, external and internal environment of municipal company Bystřická tepelná s.r.o. and that compares prices of heat energy of municipal and private heat companies.

Goal of this thesis is to introduce technology of absorption heat pumps in various modifications. Technical design draft is created for chosen modification (single stage unit water-LiBr) and based on given parameters calculated in computing software EES (engineering equation solver) and process is explained step-by-step. Following part of thesis contains reference design draft of heat plant and this design is used to demonstrate several different options of applying absorption heat pump including version capable of providing also cooling. Those options are compared with each other from technological and economical stand point.

Main goal of this work is familiarization with basic features of absorption heat pumps and it’s growing importance on the market. In the first part of the work there is a research for clarifying facts associated with such pumps. In the introduction there are descriptions of basic information from the field of heating industry and its connections to our systems. Next there is a brief analysis of price changes in electricity and heat in the last five years. Main part of the analytical section is a description of the used absorption system. Second part of the work is focused on the calculation of the absorption system itself. First there is calculated internal and external part of the device according to the parameters from GE Power s.r.o. After this step there are parametric studies based on changes of key parameters of the default device for a demonstration of the behavior of a heating pump. In the end of the work there is a integration of the unit into the heating cycle for variations including flue gas condenser and using a cooling water from the turbine condenser.