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In this era of diminishing petroleum reserves, it is imperative that industrialized society should develop ways to utilize more effectively the abundant and renewable biomass resources available to provide new sources of energy and chemical intermediates.[1] To this end, various processes have been developed to convert biomass and biomass-derived molecules into specialty chemicals (methanol), light alkanes (C1–C6), liquid fuels (ethanol and C7–C15 alkanes), and synthesis gas.[2] As a new direction, we show herein that glycerol can be converted over platinum-based catalysts into gas mixtures of H2 and CO (synthesis gas) at temperatures from 498 to 620 K. These temperatures are lower than those for conventional gasification of biomass (eg 800–1000 K).[3, 4] Synthesis gas can be used to produce fuels and chemicals; therefore, the endothermic conversion of glycerol into synthesis gas can be combined with exothermic Fischer–Tropsch and methanol syntheses to provide low-temperature and energy-efficient routes for the production of these compounds. The glycerol used can be sourced from waste glycerol streams that are currently generated as by-products from the production of biodiesel. This heat-integrated catalytic process could also be a less energy-intensive alternative to current methods of converting carbohydrates into fuel-grade ethanol. Synthesis gas production methods for conventional Fischer–Tropsch plants require either an O2 plant or a large Fischer–Tropsch reactor to process the synthesis-gas stream diluted with N2 from air, thereby increasing the capital costs of such facilities.[5] Furthermore, Hamelinck et al. showed …