Norwesco 10000 Gallon HDPE Vertical Liquid Storage Tank in White

The duty a ten thousand gallon vertical gets bought for

At this size the tank stops being equipment and becomes part of the site. Ten thousand gallons is 83400 lb of water by the sheet's own arithmetic, and the record describes a shell for contents up to 158460 lb, so what this vessel is bought for is bulk: a volume held in one place, drawn from steadily, and refilled from a truck rather than a hose. The people ordering it are the ones who have done the sum on how often a smaller tank would have to be refilled and decided that the refills, not the tank, are the expensive part.

Everything after that decision is about the ground and the air above it. The body is 141 inches across and 160 inches tall, which is more than thirteen feet of height standing on a circle just under twelve feet wide, and the support under it has to be flat, level and continuous across the whole of that circle rather than under a ring at the edge. Get the pad specified properly before the tank is ordered, not while it is on the road. For the volume itself, our tank sizing calculator and tank sizing guide are the tools, and our worked examples on vent capacity for polyethylene storage tanks are worth reading at this capacity, because a tank this large moves serious volumes of air every time it is filled or drawn down.

Five rows from 6502 to 12000 gallons

Three of those rows are ten thousand gallons and they are not interchangeable. N-43933 is this exact shell at this exact weight, and the only thing the sheet says separates them is that N-43933 is supplied without fittings where this record describes an outlet: that is the reason to take this part number rather than that one. N-45400 is the row to look at twice, because the sheet gives it as 140 inches across rather than 141 and at 1300 lb rather than 2147 on the same nominal capacity. We print those figures as the record gives them and we do not explain the difference, because the sheet does not. Above and below, N-43939 adds two thousand gallons by growing to 193 inches tall on the same 141 inch circle, and N-47933 is a narrower, taller body at 102 inches across and 196 inches high. So the family varies by height on a fixed diameter first and by diameter second, which is the order in which most sites run out of room.

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The sheet gives the outlet as 2, and a 22 inch manway above it

• The draw-off is where this record differs from its nearest sibling, and the sheet is frustratingly brief about it: the outlet field reads 2, with no units, no material and no fitting description. We print that as the figure it is and not as a pipe size, and we will get the actual description from Norwesco in writing if you ask before ordering.
• Whatever the outlet turns out to be, a pump on a vessel this tall has an easy job on head and a hard job on suction geometry. Keep the line short and straight off the tank and let the height do the work.
• There is no inlet field on this record.
• Access is a 22 inch manway. The lid field and the manway field agree at 22 inches, and on a tank 160 inches tall that opening is thirteen feet in the air, so how anyone reaches it is a site design question you want answered on paper before the tank arrives.
• The specific gravity figure is 1.9 and the maximum contents figure is 158460 lb, against 83400 lb of water. That is the widest density headroom on any of the four figures this shell carries across the range.
• The ceiling is 120 F / 48 C. The record publishes no warranty field.

One install specific that pays for itself: settle the vent arrangement at the same time as the outlet, not afterwards. A tank that can take 158460 lb of contents will pull or push a great deal of air through whatever opening is available, and an undersized vent is a problem you discover during the first fill.

1.9 specific gravity, and 158460 lb of maximum contents

The material field reads high density linear polyethylene and the colour reads white. The two figures that describe what this vessel is built to hold are the 1.9 density figure and the 158460 lb maximum contents figure; the sheet expands the density as a maximum of 15.87 pounds per gallon. Against 83400 lb of water, that is close to double the weight, and it is the single clearest reason to take this record over a lighter-duty ten thousand gallon body.

The limitation worth naming is documentary rather than physical. There is no warranty field on this record and no NMFC code beside an OVS class, which means two of the things a buyer normally reads off a sheet are simply absent here and have to be settled by conversation instead. Neither absence changes the vessel. For context on how a tank this size behaves where the liquid stops and the vapour starts, our piece on wall thickness at the vapour saturated headspace is the technical read, and our buyers guide to the natural white vertical series covers how these bodies are specified further down the range. If the stored volume has a second job on a remote site, our design piece on reservoirs for rural and remote sites is the background.

Four plants, an oversize move, and 2147 lb of empty shell

Four plants make this part number: Hanford, California; St. Bonifacius, Minnesota; Washington Court House, Ohio; and Fairfield, Texas. That spread is the best commercial news on the record, because an oversize move is priced by distance more than by anything else and the lane starts at the nearest of the four. Freight class and ship mode both read OVS, no NMFC code is published, and the empty and shipping weights agree at 2147 lb. Get the real figure for your ZIP from the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight.

Receive it by walking it. Once the tank is standing on the ground and the slings are off, walk the full 141 inch circumference at eye level and again crouched at the base, because a shell that travelled upright on an oversize trailer takes its knocks at the sling points and at the bottom edge, and both are places you will never look again once it is plumbed. Do that before the crew disperses. Then leave it empty and unplumbed until the pad has been checked level under load. Keep the first delivery's paperwork with the tank; strength and date on day one is the baseline for every batch after.