With ethylenediamine(EDA),diethylenetriamine(DETA)and triethylenetetramine(TETA)as reaction centers,methanol as solvent and methyl acrylate(MA)as raw material,three different types of hyperbranched polyamide-amines[PAMAM(EDA/DETA/TETA)]were synthesized by Michael addi-tion and amidation.Three kinds of phosphonic acid terminated hyperbranched polyamide-amine scale in-hibitors[PAMAM(EDA/DETA/TETA)-H2PO3]were prepared by modifying 1-hydroxyethylidene-l,1-diphosphonic acid(HEDP),and their scale inhibition performance and mechanism were studied.The re-sults show that the scale inhibition rate of hyperbranched polyamide-amines did not reach the standard,and the modified phosphonate terminated hyperbranched polyamide-amines had excellent scale inhibition performance.When the dosage of PAMAM(EDA)-H2PO3 is 500 mg·L-1 at high salinity,the scale inhi-bition rates of CaSO4 and CaCO3 are 98.5%and 90.1%respectively.It is also found that this type of scale inhibitor has the advantages of high temperature resistance,wide pH application range and long du-ration.Combined with dispersion performance test and scale sample analysis,it is found that its scale in-hibition mechanism was mainly related to branched molecular structure,high dispersion of polymer and introduced functional groups.