Wiktionary
n. Any device for carrying out biofiltration. vb. (context transitive English) To filter by means of biofiltration.
Wikipedia
Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using living material to capture and biologically degrade pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water, capturing harmful chemicals or silt from surface runoff, and microbiotic oxidation of contaminants in air.
Examples of biofiltration include;
- Bioswales, biostrips, biobags, bioscrubbers, and trickling filters
- Constructed wetlands and natural wetlands
- Slow sand filters
- Treatment ponds
- Green belts
- Green walls
- Riparian zones, riparian forests, bosques
Usage examples of "biofilter".
The biofilter probably got any off their clothes and skin, but the fungus was too metastasized in their bodies.
Other workers shoveled the debris left by the process into biofilter bins, where the inert black rock disappeared, to leave only dilithium chips.
Lieutenant Barclay is checking the modifications to the diagnostic biofilter, and he believes the transporter will be ready for you within the next couple hours.
However, the biofilter will be inoperational, and targeting scanners may not be capable of creating a transporter lock.
True to her word, Wilder, wherever she had been, had accessed the biofilter data from the transporter and reviewed it.
He would just have to count on the biofilters in the transporters to do their job.
Although you passed through our biofilters and took our vaccine, your ocular implants were bypassed.
At least the environmental headgear had special biofilters that allowed them to breathe ambient air and talk to one another.
The biofilters compare the data on those organisms between the time the person beamed down to the time he beamed up again, so that they could detect something that was not on the person when they first beamed down.