As regards ice storage,the solid-liquid phase change heat transfer between ice and water is a very important phenomena.The phase change process in water freeazing and ice melting can be controlled by the unsteady heat conduction in solid phase, by the conjugation of conduction-convection and by the direct contact solid-liquid phase change.The concerned tesearch about this is the base to develop the ice storage technology.The televant heat transfer problem in ice storage technology is listed,and the research advancement of water freezing the ice melting in capsule or around horizon zontal or vertical tube with free and forced vonvection is reviwed.Some experimental mehtods adopted in research of ice formation and melting are introduced as well in the paper.