air scrubber biofilm

habitatmech:GOLD.7f436f8aff ·ENGINEERED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

A biofilm which grows on wetted packing, wall, or sump surfaces inside an air scrubber and is sustained by pollutants transferred from the treated gas stream into the scrubbing liquid. — HabitatMech

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

Broader habitats

• biofilm ENVO:00002034

Also called

• Biofilm — HabitatMech curation
• scrubber biofilm — HabitatMech curation

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-13 · claude-opus-5

   Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. A biofilm growing inside an air scrubber. Whatever GOLD's branch, a biofilm is not air; it is a community on engineered equipment. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.7f436f8aff)

2. DEFINED 2026-09-09 · codex-gpt-5

   Defined as 'air scrubber biofilm' under ENVO:00002034 'biofilm'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. The report interprets GOLD's Environmental > Air > Indoor Air > Air scrubber > Biofilm leaf as a biofilm on wetted packing or fouled interior surfaces inside a wet air scrubber. ENVO:00002034 'biofilm' is the tightest vendored genus and is already the genus for other path-qualified GOLD biofilm leaves. ENVO:00002152 'biofilter', ENVO:00002123 'bioreactor', and ENVO:00003968 'air filter' name devices rather than the attached biomass. parent_mode=REPLACE drops the inherited Air scrubber parent because the biofilm is inside the scrubber but not a kind of scrubber.

Provenance

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