Editorial policy
How we source, label and review what we publish.
These are the standards we use when publishing technical material and product claims. They explain how we check sources, label results and handle corrections.
Who writes this
SediLogic Technologies is responsible for the content on this site. Articles are published under the company name.
References link to the sources behind our claims. If an independent technical reviewer contributes, we identify them and the material they reviewed.
Every figure carries its provenance
Efficacy and cost figures carry a source label. The table below explains what each label means.
- Peer-reviewed
- Published in the peer-reviewed literature.
- Controlled study
- From a controlled study rather than a field deployment.
- Vendor-published
- Published by a manufacturer about its own product. Treat as marketing, not evidence.
- Field result
- Measured at an operating plant treating with the product, over the window stated, and published as reported. A field result rather than a controlled trial.
- Operator-reported
- Reported by a plant operator. Not independently verified.
- Regulator
- Published by a government agency.
- Estimate
- A planning estimate. Confirm against a real quotation before relying on it.
- Not published
- No independent figure is available for this claim.
- Thesis
- An academic thesis or dissertation. Examined, but not peer-reviewed in the journal sense.
- Patent
- A patent filing. A claim of invention, not evidence that it works.
- Reference
- A general reference work rather than primary research or a peer-reviewed review.
Measurements from operating plants are labelled as field results, including results reported for our formulations. They are not controlled trials. The library includes results above and below the usual published range, with limitations noted for each record.
What we will not publish
A commercial dose comes from the manufacturer’s written method for the specific blend, with the document revision recorded. We do not derive doses from case studies, competitor calculators or rules of thumb.
We also will not publish a reduction figure without saying what was measured, over what period and by whom, and we will not describe the accumulated material as anything other than partly treatable: only the volatile organic fraction responds, and grit, sand, silt, mineral precipitates and plastics remain regardless of dose, product or format. The regulatory boundary on what may be claimed at all is set out separately on claims and compliance, and it governs headings, alt text and meta descriptions exactly as it governs body copy.
How the cited literature was checked
The research bibliography was built and verified against OpenAlex and cross-checked in Crossref: authors, year, venue and DOI resolve to the paper named. Where a reference carries a DOI it is given, and the link goes to the doi.org resolver rather than to a publisher page that may move. Where we cite a government source we link the document itself.
The bibliography began as a curated selection of landmark and representative work and has since been widened into a fuller bibliography of the field — though still not a complete index — and the literature pagesays how to search wider. Summaries are written here, in our own words, and describe what a paper established and where its limits are — they are not the publisher’s abstract.
Reviewing, and getting it wrong
Each guide shows its last review date. We change that date when we review the content.
If you find an error, please email dosing@lagoonsludge.com. We check reported errors and identify corrections to published information.