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

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.