Oil palm is one of the major economic crops in many countries. Malaysia alone produces about 47%
of the world’s palm oil supply and can be considered as the world’s largest producer and exporter of palm oil. Malaysia also generates huge quantity of oil palm biomass including oil palm trunks, oil palm fronds, empty fruit bunches (EFB), shells and fibers as waste from palm oil fruit harvest and oil extraction processing. At present there is a continuously increasing interest in the utilization of oil palm biomass as a source of clean energy. One of the major interests is Malaysia is currently the world’s largest producer and exporter of palm oil. Besides producing palm oil, at present there is an increasing interest concerning oil palm renewable energy, and one of major attentions is the production of hydrogen from biomass by catalytic routes. There are various thermo-chemical conversion technologies which can be applied for hydrogen production from biomass. Gasification technology provides a competitive way to convert solid biomass like oil palm waste to a uniform gas mixture namely
hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane and carbon dioxide. Catalysts are widely used for syngas cleaning and play an important role in enhancing the production of hydrogen by gasification process.