中国金属学会第五届热能与热工学术年会于1988年4月20～24日在四川省重庆市召开,会议收到论文178篇,其内容包括综合节能、能源管理、燃烧技术、熔炼炉、工业加热炉、冶金热工理论、余热利用和仪表及自动控制等7个方面。这次会议具有如下特点: 1.重点明确为了活跃学术思想,提高学术会议的质量,在1987年10月无锡召开的理事会上讨论认为,应当改革过去学术会议上泛泛宣读论文的方式。经过反复商量,为使会议收到实效,决定针对我国冶金工业炉窑节能与发展有重要关系的课题作为重点发言, The Fifth Annual Meeting of China Metals Society for Thermal Energy and Thermal Engineering was held in Chongqing, Sichuan Province from April 20 to April 24, 1988. The conference received 178 essays, covering comprehensive energy conservation, energy management, combustion technology, melting furnace , Industrial furnace, metallurgical thermal theory, waste heat utilization and instrumentation and automatic control of seven aspects. The conference has the following characteristics: 1. Emphasis on Focus In order to revitalize academic ideas and improve the quality of academic conferences, a discussion was held in the board meeting held in October 1987 in Wuxi to reform the way the papers were widely read at academic conferences. After repeated discussions, in order to make the conference effective, we decided to give a keynote speech on the important issues concerning the energy conservation and development of China’s metallurgical industry kilns,