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.