Abstract: A fluidized bed combustion method for burning wastes using a fluidized bed furnace is not affected by a fluctuation in the quantity and quality of wastes fed into the furnace, if any, thereby preventing CO gas, etc. from discharging out of the furnace. The furnace has a number of air-diffusing tubes for feeding primary air to the fluidized bed in parallel with each other at the bottom of the fluidized bed, and a free space part formed above the fluidized bed for burning unburnt matter with a secondary air. Each air-diffusing tube has a number of nozzles provided along the axis of the tube and a primary air control device including an open-close damper for controlling the quantity of air to be fed through the tube. The primary air is fed into the fluidized bed through the air-diffusing tubes one after another according to a predetermined open-close pattern by the primary air control device so that the ratio of the air quantity Uo to the minimum fluidizing air quantity Umf (Uo/Umf) is in the range of 1.

Abstract: A method of disposing of solid or paste-like paint waste in which the paint waste is firmly comminuted and mixed with waste oil and water, preferably with detergent present, to form a low-sedimentation rate slurry, and the slurry then incinerated to provide substantially complete combustion of said paint waste.