TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The deoxygenating catalyst or the hydroconversion catalyst is a glass-ceramic material, where the hydrocracking catalyst is an acidic, metal-containing catalyst, which provides both a hydrogenation and acidic function. The deoxygenation catalyst is granulated and sufficiently resistant to attrition so that it attrits the char, thus enabling removal of the char from the fluidized bed reactor substantially only from above the fluidized bed.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INSTRUMENTATION AND TESTING - Preferred Components: The hydropyrolysis reactor vessel: is a fluidized bed reactor containing a fluidized bed; and has a gas residence time of less than 1 minute.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Process: In the process, the fully deoxygenated hydrocarbon liquid created in step (a3) is recycled to the hydropyrolysis/hydroconversion reactor vessel to control temperature in it. The hydrocracking catalyst is disposed at least one of upstream of, downstream of, within, and parallel with the hydroconversion reactor vessel. The hydroconversion catalyst or the hydropyrolysis catalyst is replaced by a hydrocracking catalyst. The hydroconversion catalyst catalyzes both a water-gas-shift reaction and hydroconversion. The steps (a1), (a3), and (a4) are carried out at a substantially same pressure i.e. 100-800 psig. The hydropyrolysis and the hydroconversion are carried out at: 500-1000 degrees F and 500-850 degrees F, respectively; and at a weight hourly space velocity of 0.2-10 g biomass/g catalyst/hour and 0.2-3 g biomass/g catalyst/hour, respectively. The fully deoxygenated hydrocarbon liquid is separated into diesel and gasoline fractions suitable for use as transportation fuel. The char is removed from: the fluidized bed reactor only from above the fluidized bed by energetic char separation employing at least one of an inertial, electrostatic or magnetic process; and the partially deoxygenated hydropyrolysis liquid by bubbling gases output by the hydropyrolysis through a recirculating liquid using a high boiling point portion of the fully deoxygenated hydrocarbon liquid, where the output from the process consists essentially of liquid product and CO2. EXAMPLE - No suitable example given.