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

Gregor Sailer; Benedikt Hülsemann; Johanna Eichermüller; Florian Empl; Jens Poetsch; Stefan Pelz; Daniel Kuptz; Hans Oechsner; Joachim Müller

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108519

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

Data Brief. 2022 Aug 5:44:108519. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108519. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Authors

Gregor Sailer¹, Benedikt Hülsemann², Johanna Eichermüller¹, Florian Empl¹, Jens Poetsch¹, Stefan Pelz¹, Daniel Kuptz³, Hans Oechsner², Joachim Müller⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Applied Forest Sciences Rottenburg, Schadenweilerhof, Rottenburg 72108, Germany.
² State Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioenergy, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 9, Stuttgart 70599, Germany.
³ Technology and Support Centre in the Centre of Excellence for Renewable Resources (TFZ), Department of Solid Biofuels, Schulgasse 18, Straubing 94315, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Tropics and Subtropics Group, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 9, Stuttgart 70599, Germany.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Aerobic and anaerobic storage; Anaerobic digestion; Biowaste; Combustion; Food and green waste; Hohenheim Biogas Yield Test (HBT); Physico-chemical characteristics; Standardized samples (recipes).