The invention relates to a method for measuring the content of 
calcium sulfate in desulfurized 
gypsum of a 
coal-fired power 
plant, which comprises the following steps: (1) 
drying the desulfurized 
gypsum in the sun, 
grinding, sieving and 
drying, adding 
hydrogen peroxide, demineralized water and cation exchange resin, stirring to adjust the pH value, stirring, filtering with 
filter paper, and fixing the volume to obtain a desulfurized 
gypsum oxidation solution; (2) transferring the desulfurized gypsum oxidation solution, adding absolute ethyl 
alcohol and an 
alizarin red S indicator, uniformly mixing, titrating with a 
barium chloride standard solution, slowly generating turbid substances in a yellow solution, shaking while titrating, determining the 
titration end point when reddish color appears, and recording the volume of the consumed 
standard solution; and (3) substituting the volume of the consumed 
standard solution into a calculation formula, and calculating to obtain the content of 
calcium sulfate. The method has the advantages of simple operation steps, good 
repeatability of detection results, high accuracy, high efficiency, rapidness, low 
pollution, low 
drug consumption and low cost, meets the requirements of thermal power 
plant detection laboratories, and has a wide application range.