air scrubber
A manufactured product which removes gaseous or particulate contaminants from an air or waste-gas stream by bringing that stream into contact with a recirculating scrubbing liquid over internal packing.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Environmental > Air > Indoor Air > Air scrubber | — |
Broader habitats
- manufactured product
ENVO:00003074
Also called
- air washer
- gas scrubber
- wet scrubber
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. An air scrubber is a piece of equipment. GOLD files it under Air because the sample is scrubber air, but the habitat named by this leaf is the device, which belongs with the other built and managed environments. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.ebf95a8a4a)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'air scrubber' under ENVO:00003074 'manufactured product'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. The report reads GOLD's Environmental > Air > Indoor Air > Air scrubber leaf as an agricultural or industrial wet exhaust scrubber whose wetted packing, biofilm, and recirculating liquid form microbial habitats. ENVO lacks a scrubber or air-pollution-control-device class; ENVO:00003074 'manufactured product' is the tightest vendored genus, while ENVO:00002152 'biofilter' and ENVO:00003968 'air filter' are near misses that over-claim biological degradation or HVAC semantics. parent_mode=REPLACE drops GOLD's inherited Indoor Air parent because the scrubber treats an air stream but is not itself a portion of indoor air.