The invention relates to the technical field of heavy oil detection, in particular to a method for detecting the content of organic
chlorine in heavy oil, which comprises the following steps: removing
free water from to-be-detected heavy oil containing
free water to obtain a heavy oil sample containing emulsified water, taking out the heavy oil sample containing emulsified water, adding a
solvent which has a
boiling point higher than 204 DEG C and is insoluble in water to obtain a diluted
crude oil sample, and measuring the content of organic
chlorine in heavy oil. The method comprises the following steps: centrifuging and dehydrating a thin oil sample to obtain a dehydrated
crude oil sample, distilling the dehydrated
crude oil sample to obtain fractions at the temperature of 204 DEG C or below, and detecting by using a micro-
coulomb method to obtain the content of organic
chlorine in the thickened oil. According to the method, the water-insoluble
solvent with the
boiling point higher than 204 DEG C is used for diluting the thickened oil, then the distillate oil with the
boiling point higher than 204 DEG C is distilled out, and then the content of the organic chlorine in the distillate oil with the boiling point higher than 204 DEG C in the crude oil is determined by the microcoulometric method, so that the method has the advantages of high efficiency, simplicity and accurate measurement result, meets the GB / T 18612 requirement, and can realize rapid and accurate detection of the content of the organic chlorine in the water-containing thickened oil.