This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of chromium on the reduction behaviour of ferric oxide with carbon monoxide (10 %, v/v) in nitrogen as a reductant. Ferric oxide was impregnated with 3 % chromium to produce chromium-doped ferric oxide (Cr-Fe 2 O 3 ). The reduction behaviour and the kinetic studies of Cr-Fe 2 O 3 and Fe 2 O 3 have been studied by temperature programmed reduction (TPR) and the phases formed of partially and completely reduced samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD). Meanwhile, the activation energy values were calculated from the Arrhenius equation using Wimmer's method. TPR results indicate that the reduction of Cr-Fe 2 O 3 proceeded in two reduction steps (Fe 2 O 3 → Fe 3 O 4 → Fe), while, Fe 2 O 3 proceeded in three reduction steps (Fe 2 O 3 → Fe 3 O 4 → FeO → Fe) with doped ferric oxide showed a large shifted towards lower temperature. The complete reduction of ferric oxide to metallic Fe occur at 700 °C compared to the undoped ferric oxide (900 °C). The XRD pattern showed that the diffraction peaks of Cr-Fe 2 O 3 are more intense compare to Fe 2 O 3 , indicating that the improvement on the crystallinity of the characteristic peaks of Fe 2 O 3 with no additional peak observed meaning that the chromium particles loaded on the ferric oxide were well dispersed. Furthermore, additional of 3 % chromium on ferric oxide gives larger surface area and decrease in the activation energy up to 12.39 % regarding to transition phases of Fe 2 O 3 → Fe 3 O 4 during the reduction process may also led to the increase in the rates of ferric oxide reduction.