Resin catalysts have the advantage of having various properties and long lifetime due to their ability to be regenerated easily, which makes them attractive supports. In this paper, a comparative study was conducted to optimize the dehydrogenation reaction condition using two different types of support materials: alumina (Al2O3), and Amberlyst-15 and to improve the catalytic activity as well as preparing an efficient and low-cost system for practical application, ruthenium metal catalyst was incorporated on Amberlyst-15 resin (a sulfonic acid type based upon a styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer) to release H-2 via hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane. Using ruthenium (Ru) catalysts based on Amberlyst-15 support material and comparing the results with Al2O3 as the common supporting material is considered to be studied for the first time. The effect of temperature (20-50 degrees C), the initial ammonia borane concentration (0.05-0.5 %wt), and catalyst amount (0.2-0.5 g) on the produced H-2 yield was also investigated. Ru@Amberlyst-15 nanoparticle was discovered to be an effective catalyst for hydrogen evolution via the hydrolysis of ammonia borane with a turnover frequency value (TOF) of 343.3 min(-1), while Ru@Al2O3 yielded a TOF of 87.5 min(-1) at the room temperature. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Amberlyst-15 supporting effect on ruthenium metal leads an increase in the hydrogen production rate. (C) 2018 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.