Read me file: Yue Zhang (Y.Zhang@soton.ac.uk), Water and Environmental Engineering Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton. The excel file contains raw experimental data for paper: Li Y., Zhang Y., Kong X., Li L., Yuan Z., Dong R. and Sun Y. (2017) Effects of ammonia on propionate degradation and microbial community in digesters using propionate as a sole carbon source. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. Accepted on 23 Feb 2017. Fig 1. Propionic acid degradation performance of reactors. Fig 2. Relative abundance of archaea 16S rRNA gene at the order level and genus level. Fig 3. Relative abundance of bacteria 16S rRNA gene at the phylum level and class s level. Table 2. Comparision of the dominant functional groups for propionate degradation and methane production. Date and place of data collection: 2015 (University of Southampton, the UK) and 2016 (China) Date that the file was created: February 2017