Accepted: 18.04.2014

As a result of rising fossil fuel prices and strict environmental regulations, it is necessary to find new solutions to reduce the proportion of coke breeze in the production of agglomerate. One solution is to use alternative biomass based fuels as a partial replacement of coke breeze. To implement laboratory sintering served laboratory sintering pan, the data were recorded and subsequently evaluated. Coke breeze was partially replaced with charcoal in amount of 8 %