Biomass gasifi cation is one of the most viable approaches for exploiting biomass. It systemically employs several agents

in stimulating the desired reactions that lead to the conversion of biomass feed stocks to fuels/other products. Owing to

the biodiversity of the products of biomass gasifi cation, they are fast becoming substitutes for fossil-based products/fuels.

In order to ensure optimal production of potential bioproducts, the process conditions of a gasifi cation process have to be

essentially controlled within the ambience of high throughput. Based on existing literature, biomass gasifi cation to fuels

is not essentially new; however, till date, none of the existing works seeks to unveil the role of heterogeneous catalysis in

biomass gasifi cation toward ensuring high bioproducts yield. Heterogeneous catalysis seems to play a crucial role in biomass

gasifi cation owing to the fact that catalyst involvement in gasifi cation processes helps to lower the activation energy

of specifi c reactions; hence, under thermal infl uence, the catalysts tend to hasten such reactions for the desired conversions.

Furthermore, it is also pertinent to take into consideration viable approaches for extending or maintaining the service life

of the catalyst employed by deploying apt modalities that abate catalyst poisoning (aging, deactivation and fouling); this

paper seeks to cover such challenges.