The monograph, based on the expansion of scientific ideas about the processes of oxidation of coking coal of varying degrees of metamorphism and the study of its features during storage and preparation for coking, provides evidence-based recommendations for the rational use of oxidized coal in the production of blast furnace coke. The following paragraphs are included in the book: 1.Kinetic characteristics of coal oxidation. 2. Oxidation of coal in laboratory conditions. 3. Oxidation of coal in industrial conditions.