The paper summarized the anti-scaling, scale removal and sterilization theories, and nowaday research of magnetic treatment, showed the foreground of application in thermal power plant.

• 摘要： 文章叙述了磁处理的防垢、除垢和杀菌的机理及目前的研究成果，并对其在火电厂的应用前景进行了展望。