Datasets on material properties and energy yields of lab-designed organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) components

• Published in: Data in brief Vol. 44; p. 108519
• Main Authors: Sailer, Gregor, Hülsemann, Benedikt, Eichermüller, Johanna, Empl, Florian, Poetsch, Jens, Pelz, Stefan, Kuptz, Daniel, Oechsner, Hans, Müller, Joachim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.10.2022; Elsevier
• Subjects: Aerobic and anaerobic storage; Anaerobic digestion; biogas; Biowaste; Combustion; Data; data collection; energy; Food and green waste; Hohenheim Biogas Yield Test (HBT); municipal solid waste; Physico-chemical characteristics; physicochemical properties; provenance; Standardized samples (recipes); Biowaste; Standardized samples (recipes); Physico-chemical characteristics; Aerobic and anaerobic storage; Combustion; Hohenheim Biogas Yield Test (HBT); Anaerobic digestion; Food and green waste
• ISSN: 2352-3409; 2352-3409
• DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108519

The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) is a complex material with different ingredients characterized by varying properties depending on parameters such as season or geographical region of origin. Consequently, studies on OFMSW are hard to compare due to the changing characteristics of the samples. Therefore, this article presents data on the physico-chemical composition of standardized, recipe-based OFMSW components divided into the categories “Paper”, “Green waste” and “Food waste”, and further subcategories. Data presented in this article include (1) dry matter, (2) organic dry matter, (3) C, H and N concentrations, (4) gross calorific values, (5) ash melting behavior, (6) specific biogas yield and (7) methane concentration. An application example of an experiment requiring the same starting material properties is represented by storage experiments, as performed within the original scientific article [1]. Thus, this Data in Brief article also provides additional data on recipe-based storage experiments complementing the original article. The datasets cannot only be used to estimate biowaste potentials but they can also be used for the design and execution of experiments that require standardized OFMSW samples.