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ABSTRACT iii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT v
TABLE OF CONTENTS vi
LIST OF FIGURES ix
LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS x

1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT 1
1.2. THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE 3
1.2.1. Types Of Thermal Energy Storage 4
1.2.2. Thermo Chemical Storage 4
1.2.3. Sensible Heat Storage 5
1.2.4. Latent Heat Storage 6
1.3. COLD THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE 7
SYSTEM

1.4. PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL 9

1.4.1. Various PCM Materials 10
1.4.2. Water 11
1.4.3. Paraffin Wax 11
1.4.4. Eutectic Salts 12
1.4.5. Salt Hydrates 12
1.5. ENCAPSULATION 12
1.5.1. General Materials Used For Encapsulation 13
1.5.2. Macro Encapsulation 13
1.5.3. Micro Encapsulation 15
1.6 SOLIDIFICATION 15
1.6.1. Super Cooling 16
2 LITERATURE REVIEW 17
3 EXPERIMENTATION 20
3.1. SELECTION OF PCM 20
3.2. SELECTION OF WATER AS PCM 21
3.3. SELECTION OF ENCAPSULATION 21
MATERIAL
3.1.1. Selection Of Material 21
3.4. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP 22
3.3 EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE 24
4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 25
4.1. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 25
4.1.1. Temperature Vs Time History For -9oC 25
 Surrounding Temperature
4.1.2. Temperature Vs Time History For -12oC 26
Surrounding Temperature
5 CONCLUSION 27

REFERENCES 28