In view of energy and environmental problems associated with the use of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum and gas) in power generation, an increasing attention is being paid world-over by the scientists and technocrats for the utilization of renewable energy sources in power generation, metallurgical industries etc. There are various type of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydropower, biomass energy etc. out of these renewable energy sources, biomass is more economically viable for almost all the continents in the world. Biomass is a carbonaceous material and provides both the thermal energy and reduction for oxides, where as other renewable energy sources can meet our thermal need only. Amongst all the solid fuel like coal etc. biomass is the purest fuel consisting of very lesser amount of ash materials Presently , co-firing (coal + rice husk) has been proved to be more attractive and economically viable technique for power generation. In the present work, briquettes were prepared by mixing non-coking coal from Orissa mines and the related biomass species in different ratio (coal: husk = 95:05, 90:10, 85:15, 80:20,75:25,70:30,65:35,60:40 ). The proximate analysis results of studied coal proved it of
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