With the rapid development of economy in our country, the composition of industrial effluent from manufacturing and life gradually diversified, lead to produce a large amount of sludge in the process of sewage treatment, the sludge contains a lot of phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium, etc., as well as metal elements for sludge dewatering, organic polymer flocculant compared with previous inorganic flocculants showed the dehydration of more outstanding performance. Thus, in this paper, in view of the organic polymer flocculant research and analyze its application in sludge dewatering, objective interpretation in recent years, different kinds of organic polymer flocculant used in sludge dewatering effect, how to choose the organic polymer flocculant, its processing method is induction and summary, can draw, join the cation of inorganic flocculants, The performance of organic polymer flocculant with higher molecular content is more outstanding in the actual sludge dewatering application.