Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-10, 2000, Orlando, Florida. Annual compilation of 72 full-length, peer-reviewed papers covering the following Heat Pumps and Positive Displacement Heat actuated sorption and desiccant heat pumps; Heat and mass transfer in heat pumps. Natural refrigerant/environmentally benign heat pumps; Fluid mechanics and heat transfer in positive displacement compressors; Emerging and new technologies for heat pump and refrigeration cycles. Thermodynamics and the Design, Analysis and Improvement of Energy Energy system analysis and design; Thermodynamics and energy systems; Fuel cell technology; Fundamentals of thermodynamics. S. Garimella, M. Von Spakovsky and S. Somasundaram