READ ME File For: Dataset for 'Comparison of variable and constant loading for mesophilic food waste digestion in a long-term experiment' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1266 ReadMe Author: Yue Zhang (Y.Zhang@soton.ac.uk), Water and Environmental Engineering Group, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton. The excel file contains raw experimental data for the paper: Song H, Zhang Y, Kusch-Brandt S and Banks CJ (2020) Comparison of variable and constant loading for mesophilic food waste digestion in a long-term experiment. Accepted on 3 March 2020. This dataset includes the calculation for Figure 2. 'VFA profiles', Figure 3. 'Operational parameters' and Figure 4. '28-days rolling average volumetric methane production'. Licence: CC BY Related projects: The authors wish to thank the UK Government’s Department of the Environment Food and Rural 399Affairs (Defra) and the European Union 7th Framework programme for financial support to carry out this work 400through grant number WR1208 and 241334 (VALORGAS) respectively. Date and place of data collection: 2011-14 (University of Southampton, the UK) Date that the file was created: March 2020