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Energies 2009, 2, 258-268; doi:10.3390/e OPEN ACCESS energies ISSN 1996-1073 /journal/energies Article Air Gasification of Agricultural Waste in a Fluidized Bed Gasifier: Hydrogen Production Performance W. A. Wan Ab Karim Ghani 1,*, Reza Alipour Moghadam 1, M. A. Mohd Salleh 1 and 2 A. B. Alias 1 Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; E-Mails: moghadam.reza@; asalleh@.my 2 Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia, 54500 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: wanaz@.my; Tel.: +603- Fax: +603 Received: 17 April 2009; in revised form: 11 May 2009 / Accepted: 12 May 2009 / Published: 19 May 2009 Abstract: Recently, hydrogen production from biomass has become an attractive technology for power generation. The main objective pursued in this work is to investigate the hydrogen production potential from agricultural wastes (coconut coir and palm kernel shell) by applying the air gasification technique. An experimental study was conducted using a bench-scale fluidized bed gasifier with 60 mm diameter and 425 mm height. During the experiments, the fuel properties and the effects of operating parameters such as gasification temperatures (700 to 900°C), fluidization ratio (2 to 3.33 m/s), static bed height (10 to 30 mm) and equivalence ratio (0.16 to 0.46) were studied. It was concluded