cooling tower

habitatmech:BACDIVE.71d5f01e03 ·OTHER ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

A human construction which rejects waste heat from a recirculating water loop by evaporating part of that water into an air stream drawn through the structure, and which retains the remaining water in an open basin between passes. — 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.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
BACDIVE	Cooling-tower	26	STRAIN

Broader habitats

human construction ENVO:00000070

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool
Desulfotomaculum sp. `NCBITaxon:41211`	BACDIVE	1	23
Reyranella massiliensis `NCBITaxon:445220`	BACDIVE	2	23
Legionella massiliensis `NCBITaxon:1034943`	BACDIVE	3	23
Allofrancisella frigidaquae `NCBITaxon:1085644`	BACDIVE	4	23
Allofrancisella inopinata `NCBITaxon:1085647`	BACDIVE	5	23
Legionella moravica DSM 19234 `NCBITaxon:1122165`	BACDIVE	6	23
Legionella shakespearei DSM 23087 `NCBITaxon:1122169`	BACDIVE	7	23
Legionella oakridgensis ATCC 33761 = DSM 21215 `NCBITaxon:1268635`	BACDIVE	8	23
Flavobacterium sp. DSM 9626 `NCBITaxon:1611423`	BACDIVE	9	23
Legionella busanensis `NCBITaxon:190655`	BACDIVE	10	23
Ramlibacter aquaticus `NCBITaxon:2780094`	BACDIVE	11	23
Legionella brunensis `NCBITaxon:29422`	BACDIVE	12	23
Achromobacter denitrificans `NCBITaxon:32002`	BACDIVE	13	23
Legionella pneumophila `NCBITaxon:446`	BACDIVE	14	23
Legionella erythra `NCBITaxon:448`	BACDIVE	15	23
Desulfotomaculum sp. DSM 7440 `NCBITaxon:449308`	BACDIVE	16	23
Legionella adelaidensis `NCBITaxon:45056`	BACDIVE	17	23
Legionella londiniensis `NCBITaxon:45068`	BACDIVE	18	23
Legionella parisiensis `NCBITaxon:45071`	BACDIVE	19	23
Legionella worsleiensis `NCBITaxon:45076`	BACDIVE	20	23
Fluoribacter dumoffii `NCBITaxon:463`	BACDIVE	21	23
Allofrancisella guangzhouensis `NCBITaxon:594679`	BACDIVE	22	23
Legionella pneumophila subsp. fraseri `NCBITaxon:91892`	BACDIVE	23	23

Curation

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

CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-09-06 · codex-gpt-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Definition review: the existing cohort review correctly rejected NCIT:C48957 'Tower' as merely a structure of any kind and ENVO:03600002 'cooling water' as a medium rather than a site. BacDive's cooling-tower source denotes an open, recirculating, evaporative heat-rejection construction that needs its own HabitatMech definition. (source concept habitatmech:BACDIVE.71d5f01e03)
DEFINED 2026-09-06 · codex-gpt-5
Defined as 'cooling tower' under ENVO:00000070 'human construction'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full, and rechecked against EPA WaterSense, DOE FEMP and CDC cooling-tower guidance; no new paid research was commissioned. ENVO has cooling water and water-cooling process terms but no site term for the open recirculating heat-rejection construction. NCIT:C48957 'Tower' remains rejected as a generic tower label, not a broader cooling-tower habitat. ADD keeps any source-inherited hierarchy and supplies ENVO:00000070 as a true ontology genus.

Provenance

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