The invention belongs to the field of preparation of low-carbon olefins, and discloses a method and an apparatus for preparing low-carbon olefins through
cracking of
crude oil. The method comprises: 1) feeding
crude oil into the first
pipe group of a
convection section, pre-heating, and carrying out gas-liquid separation on the pre-heated
crude oil by a first
cyclone separator to form a first steam phase and a first
liquid phase; 2) carrying out hydrogenation
processing on the first
liquid phase, and mixing with a liquid-state
hydrocarbon to obtain a mixture; 3) feeding the mixture into the first
pipe group of the
convection section of the
cracking furnace, pre-heating, and carrying out gas-liquid separation on the pre-heated mixture by a second
cyclone separator to form a second steam phase and a second
liquid phase; 4) feeding the first steam phase and the second steam phase into the second
pipe group of the
convection section of the
cracking furnace, heating to achieve a
crossover temperature, directly feeding into a
radiation section, and cracking to form cracking gas containing low-carbon olefins; and 5) making the second liquid phase contact the
superheated steam of the convection section, and carrying out steam stripping. With the method of the present invention, the crude oil cracking efficiency can be effectively improved, and the yield of the olefin product can be increased.