To date, biomass is still an important energy resource for cooking and heating in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Along with the progression towards green energy move, the generation of clean energy from biomass conversion or biomass gasification is literally important to plunge the use of non-renewable fossil fuels which is the cause for air pollution and greenhouse effect 1. Relying solely on solar power is insufficient to maintain a clean and sustainable energy environment. The loading of 20 wt.% optimised amount of catalyst itself has successfully shorten the completion of gasification process up to 135вЂ‰min, which is highly feasible for a large scale industrial usage after considering the cost of the catalyst, facile preparation method, and catalystвЂ™s effectiveness towards gasification. Distinctively, the feature of the synthesised Оі-NA5 pellet from the conventional powder-like catalyst is that it eases the separation of the used catalyst from the biomass ash, and subsequently facilitates regeneration solely by calcination process. Additionally, the pellet exhibits remarkable reversibility and reusability with 91% H 2 production efficiency being retained after five consecutive gasification cycles. The synthesised Оі-NA5 pellet possesses a high surface area of 212.32 m 2вЂ‰g в€’1, which renders more active sites for hydrocarbon cracking, subsequently leading to high H 2 production (0.0716 m 3вЂ‰kg в€’1). A Оі-NA5 catalyst in the form of pellet was first to be reported and was pioneering in gasification to accelerate the production of syngas through biomass (palm empty fruit brunch) conversion.

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