Editorial policy
How we source, label and review what we publish.
This is a commercial site that also publishes technical material, and those two things pull in opposite directions. What follows is the method we hold ourselves to, written down so you can check whether we kept to it.
Who writes this
SediLogic Technologies does. There is no personal byline on these pages, and rather than attach one we would sooner explain the absence: this is a new company, and a name on an article would be doing reputational work it has not yet earned. Inventing an author, or borrowing credentials, is the sort of thing this category already does too much of.
What we offer instead of a byline is the method below, and the sources themselves. A claim you can trace to a published paper with a resolving DOI is worth more than a claim attached to a name you cannot check. Where an independent technical reviewer is engaged, this page will name them and say what they reviewed.
Every figure carries its provenance
No efficacy or cost figure appears on this site without a label saying where it came from, and the labels are applied by the same components that render the numbers, so a figure cannot quietly lose its provenance in an edit. These are the labels in use and what each one 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.
- Supplier-published
- Published by the manufacturer. Not a SediLogic installation and not independently verified by SediLogic.
- 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 exists for this. Treat any number you see elsewhere as unverifiable.
- 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 Examined, but not peer-reviewed in the journal sense.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.
The label that matters most is the one we apply to ourselves. Case studies published by the manufacturer whose product we resell are tagged as supplier-published, because a manufacturer’s case study is marketing about its own product and is not evidence about a reseller. We would rather label our best-looking numbers honestly than have you discover the provenance yourself.
What we will not publish
A commercial dose comes only from the manufacturer’s written dose table for the specific blend, with the document revision recorded. It is never worked backwards from a case study, taken from a competitor’s calculator, or rounded off an industry rule of thumb. An under-dosed order does not read as a sizing error to the operator who bought it; it reads as a product that does not work.
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
Every guide carries the date it was last reviewed, shown beside the article rather than buried, and that date changes only when the page was genuinely re-read. We would rather show an older date honestly than restamp everything on a deploy and tell you nothing.
If something here is wrong, we would like to know, and we will correct it and say that we have. Write to dosing@lagoonsludge.com. Corrections to a published figure are worth more to us than the figure was.