Stainless steel continuous annealing furnace is mainly used for heat treatment of hot-rolled strip steel.The combustion air will be enabled to heat to 520℃by waste heat recovery system,but the discharge temperature is still up to about 300℃.Owing to with development of global emphasis on energy conservation energy saving and discharge reduction,it’s significant to lower the discharge temperature to below 200℃, for the sake of achieving rational use of waste heat resource.Through the analysis of the existing heat recovery system by this study,it is proved that mixing low temperature with flue gas in high temperature standard will increase the capacity of the flue gas and deteriorate the quality of remaining heat resource.In stead of that,increasing the combustion air temperature to 600℃on the basis of stability temperature for the prerequisite of recuperator design,and giving priority to reducing fuel consumption are the better way.The recovery and recycle of low temperature gas are also be introduced.It is demonstrated by the way of setting a secondary recuperator at the exit of the primary recuperator,and using low temperature flue gas to heat the air used for drying the strip steel,the exhuast temperature of flue gas can be reduced to lower than 200℃.At the same time,the steam required for heating air is saved,the energy reserve as high as 2 300 t of standard coal per year. Stainless steel continuous annealing furnace is mainly used for heat treatment of hot-rolled strip steel. Combustion air will be enabled to heat to 520 ℃ by waste heat recovery system, but the discharge temperature is still up to about 300 ℃ .Owing to with development of global emphasis on energy conservation energy saving and discharge reduction, it’s significant to lower the discharge temperature to below 200 ° C, for the sake of achieving rational use of waste heat resource. Through the analysis of the existing heat recovery system by this study, it is proved that mixing low temperature with flue gas in high temperature standard will increase the capacity of the flue gas and deteriorate the quality of remaining heat resource.In stead of that, increasing the combustion air temperature to 600 ℃ on the basis of stability temperature for the prerequisite of recuperator design, and giving priority to reducing fuel consumption are the better way. The recovery and recycle of low temperature gas is also demonstrated by the way of setting a secondary recuperator at the exit of the primary recuperator, and using low temperature flue gas to heat the air used for drying the strip steel, the exhuast temperature of flue gas can be reduced At the same time, the steam required for heating air is saved, the energy reserve as high as 2 300 t of standard coal per year.