Exploring biogas potential data of cattle manure and olive cake to gain insight into farm and commercial scale production.

Shiplu Sarker

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.106045

Abstract

This article presents raw data of volumetric biogas and its methane composition obtained from anaerobic digestion experiments conducted under lab scale condition. A commercial biogas industry in Trondheim (Norway) developed interest in using olive cake from a Danish farm (Combineering A/S, Birkerød, Denmark) as a substrate for its existing biogas plant. Moreover, local cattle farm owners wanted to evaluate the possibility of investing on a biogas plant using cattle manure generated on their own farmlands. Accordingly, an evaluation of biogas production potential of these substrates was performed and the obtained data in brief are presented.

Highlights

Exploring biogas potential data of cattle manure and olive cake to gain insight into farm and commercial scale production
This article presents raw data of volumetric biogas and its methane composition obtained from anaerobic digestion experiments conducted under lab scale condition
Local cattle farm owners wanted to evaluate the possibility of investing on a biogas plant using cattle manure generated on their own farmlands

Summary

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The manually recorded biogas volume data were transferred to Microsoft excel spread sheets for analysis and to represent in terms of various other units, i.e., specific yield and daily yield. Repository name: Insight on biogas potential data of cattle manure and olive cake for stimulating investigation on farm and commercial scale production. The presented data are of extreme importance to the local cattle farm owners in performing preliminary assessment to consider for an investment on a biogas plant. Both local community, farm owners, researchers and business stakeholders will be benefitted by accessing the data, as the demonstrated data will allow to make a quick assessment whether or not anaerobic digestion is a convenient option for treating investigated feedstocks to generate renewable biogas. The presented data can be interpreted, exchanged and extracted to strip out basic biogas parameters, which allow comparison with similar data generated through a similar or different methodologies in variable contexts, and making them as a valuable R&D reference

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