eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Water Resources 2333-4819 2018-09-19 6 4 156 161 10.12691/ajwr-6-4-2 AJWR2018642 article Jawed Ahmad 1 Azhar Husain ahusain3@jmi.ac.in 1 Bushra Hasan 1 Rubia Gaur 1 Praveen Kumar 2 Anwar Ali Khan 2 Abid Ali Khan 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi NMCG, Min. of Wat. Res., Govt. of India, New Delhi The present study investigates the characteristics of the different organic waste obtained from dumping sites of the Campus of the university and Okhla region of Delhi. Three types of wastes; kitchen waste (KW), Food vegetable waste (FVW) and Garden waste (GW) were used for batch scale anaerobic digestion study. The prepared slurry was analyzed for pH, Alkalinity, Chemical oxygen demand (COD), Total solids (TS), and Volatile solids (VS). The results shows the initial characteristics ranges; pH 6.70 to 7.70; COD 1900 to 3000 mg/L, TS- 9.8 to 15.23 %, VS 79.2 to 85.70 %. The maximum COD = 86% and VS =44.32 % was removed with FVW and KW, respectively. The maximum biogas 3500 mL was observed when FVW was digested with Cow dung. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajwr/6/4/2/ajwr-6-4-2.pdf anaerobic digestion organic wastes kitchen waste food vegetable waste cow dung