Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide an ash-melting furnace which can respond to fluctuations in the load and which will be capable of highly efficient and stable operation. In an ash-melting furnace which heats and melts the primary ash and the fly ash obtained by combustion together, this invention is characterized by supplying the primary ash (ash containing rough particles) from upper end of the furnace to form an upper layer of a two-tiered layer of ash, supplying the fly ash (ash containing minute particles) from an upper end of the furnace to form a lower layer of the two-tiered layer of ash, moving the two-tiered layer together towards the far end of the furnace, and heating and melting the two-tiered layer by a burner to form molten slugs during the moving step. When the burner is an oxygen-enriched burner, this configuration makes it possible to control the volume of oxygen to be added to the burner air (including changing the density of the oxygen).

Abstract: Disclosed are a catalyst filter characterized in that catalyst particles which are made of titanium oxide and vanadium oxide or titanium oxide, vanadium oxide and tungsten oxide and whose diameters are between 0.01 and 1 .mu.m are carried by a filter made by weaving monofilaments of a glass fiber and/or of a catalytic fiber;a method for manufacturing thereof; anda comprehensive method for treating a combustion exhaust gas characterized in that an alkaline powder or ammonia or its precursor is supplied to a flow of a combustion exhaust gas containing toxic substances such as dust, acidic gases and nitrogen oxides, and the flow of a combustion exhaust gas is let pass through a filter carrying a catalyst for denitrating the above combustion exhaust gas.