Au-Pd catalysts supported on SBA-16, SBA-16-CeO 2 , and CeO 2 had been studied for partial oxidation of methanol to produce H 2 . The physicochemical characteristics of the catalysts prepared by deposition-precipitation using urea hydrolysis were examined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR), and H 2 temperature-programmed desorption (H 2 -TPD) analyses. The results show that Au x Pd y alloys are observed in Au-Pd/ SBA-16 and Au-Pd/SBA-16-CeO 2 catalysts. The catalytic results demonstrate that both Au-Pd/SBA-16 and Au-Pd/ SBA-16-CeO 2 catalysts exhibit higher activity and lower CO selectivity than the Au-Pd/CeO 2 catalyst. This could be ascribed to the formation of Au x Pd y alloys. The comparison of the Au-Pd/SBA-16 and Au-Pd/SBA-16-CeO 2 catalysts reveals that the Au-Pd/SBA-16-CeO 2 shows the lower CO selectivity, probably due to the presence of CeO 2 .