Enhancement of Energy Storage Using Phase Change Material and Nano Materials in Advancement

In recent years the deterioration of the energy crisis and environmental pollution, a lot of research on the utilization of alternative energy sources and methodologies were found. Thermal energy storage plays a greater role in the era of energy. Conventional energy sources are pollutive in many ways and as well the storage is shallow. The PCMs (Phase change Materials) based thermal energy storages are investigated based on different parameters during the Melting and solidification process. Due to the high energy storage density and constant phase change temperature, phase change thermal energy storage (PCTES) has gradually become one of the preferred thermal energy storage systems over the last three decades. Analysis of PCMs has been done for thermal energy storage because of their high thermal energy densities per unit volume mass and their availability in wide temperature ranges. PCMs store the energy in the form of latent heat during phase change and this energy is being used afterwards for different and several different purposes PCM thermal storage plays a key role in improving energy efficiency and in limiting the discrepancy between the energy supply and energy demand of solar thermal energy applications (STEAs). This paper deals with the case study of different PCMs used in energy storage. The case study focuses on the application of PCM in Ice storage and the building materials have been presented.