10,500 gallons of black cross-linked wall rated 1.9, molded in Lincoln or Philippi
Two plants mold this tank, and that is the first thing to know about it. The Snyder 5330000N48 is a black cross-linked polyethylene vertical tank, 142 inches across and 169 inches tall, 3,100 pounds empty, and it comes out of Lincoln, Nebraska or Philippi, West Virginia, whichever gives the shorter lane to your pad. The wall is rated for a specific gravity of 1.9 on the sheet, 166,383 pounds of contents against 87,570 for water, which is the heaviest rating in this shell in the cross-linked resin: the combination a plant buys for concentrated acid, ferric and the dense brines that stand in the sun. An 18 inch threaded, vented manway on top, a service limit of 140 F / 60 C, a 3 year warranty, and freight at class 300.
Ordering for a plant or a bid? Request a written quote with freight to your ZIP for the file; a single 10500 gallon tank goes straight to the cart above.
Two plants, one lane to your pad
Where the tank is molded decides what the freight costs, and a 142 inch tank makes that decision expensive to get wrong. It rides a flatbed as a wide load, with a permit and often an escort, and every mile of the lane is billed. Lincoln covers the Plains, the upper Midwest and the Mountain West; Philippi covers the Mid-Atlantic, the Southeast and the Ohio Valley. Give us the delivery ZIP and the order goes to the plant with the shorter lane, and the freight cost estimator prices that lane before you commit. Then the ground it lands on. Full at the rating this tank puts 166,383 pounds, more than eighty tons, on a circle not quite twelve feet across, and a rotationally molded floor bears on the whole slab, so the pad is engineered per the concrete pad sizing guide, level and in full contact, inside a berm sized to 110 percent of the tank where the liquid is regulated. Empty, fourteen feet of black tank on that circle is a sail, so it is strapped to structure before the first fill and the straps are checked after the first windy week and the first full summer; cross-linked black polyethylene grows a little in the sun like any other. The black wall passes no light to the liquid, runs warmer than white, and hides the level, so a sender read at the ground is the gauge. Whether 10,500 gallons covers the draw between tankers is a question for the tank sizing calculator; the reserve and the headspace a dense liquid needs as it warms are in the tank sizing guide.
The 142 inch shell at 10,500, and the water tanks beside it
| Part | Gallons | Diameter x height | Empty weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5330000N48 (this tank, black, cross-linked, 1.9 SG) | 10,500 | 142 x 169 in | 3,100 lb |
| 5330000C34 (black) | 10,500 | 142 x 169 in | 2,250 lb |
| 5330000C37-BLACK (black) | 10,500 | 142 x 169 in | 2,250 lb |
| 5330000N29 (cross-linked, 1.35 SG) | 10,500 | 142 x 169 in | 2,500 lb |
| 32026 (water, dark green) | 10,000 | 142 x 167 in | 2,170 lb |
| 32074 (water, white) | 12,000 | 142 x 197 in | 2,482 lb |
Snyder lists this shell in two resins. The C34 and C37-BLACK are the black polyethylene tanks at 2,250 pounds, each rated as its own sheet says; the N29 is the cross-linked tank rated 1.35 at 2,500 pounds; and this N48 is the cross-linked tank at 3,100 pounds with the 1.9 rating, the heaviest wall Snyder molds in this shell, which the sheet gives and we print. Two more cross-linked black tanks sit in the same shell at lighter ratings on their own pages. Buy this one when the liquid is both dense and aggressive: the C34 answers density, the N29 answers chemistry at a modest weight, and only this one answers both at the top of the scale. The 32026 and 32074 are the water tanks on the same 142 inch floor, the first two inches lower and the second in a taller shell listed at 12,000 gallons, for the site that stores water and does not need a chemical wall at all.
Need the taller or the wider one? Every row links to its page with freight to your ZIP on each; 866-418-1777 will check the ceiling and the pad.
A manway fourteen feet up
- Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway at 169 inches, fourteen feet one inch off the pad. Nobody reaches it from a ladder in a hurry; a fixed platform with a rail is part of the install. Fill through a dip tube to the floor, run the vent outdoors on a liquid that fumes, and size the vent to the delivery pump.
- Outlet: the sheet's outlet field reads 28, a bare number with no size, thread or material on it; we print it as the sheet gives it. Name the liquid at order and the bulkhead fitting, gasket and bolting are specified to it, with a flexible connector to hard pipe and the first valve supported off the pad, never hung on the wall.
- Service limit: 140 F / 60 C, the cross-linked wall's number.
Fourteen feet of head above the outlet is the strongest flooded suction in the family, so a transfer pump set below the outlet primes by gravity and runs to the last few inches; a low-level float stops it before it draws air. That same head is pressure on the fitting and the first valve, which is one more reason the valve stands on its own support and the connector is flexible. The manway stays shut between deliveries so vapor stays in and rain stays out, the wall carries the name of the one chemical inside, and the band of wall above the liquid line gets a light every time the lid comes off. Where winters freeze, the valve and the first pipe run crack before the tank does; trace or wrap them and let the body ice from the top down.
Where a 1.9 cross-linked 10,500 earns its keep
Sulfuric or hydrochloric acid at strength at a treatment plant, ferric at a water plant that buys by the tanker, and the hot, dense process liquids at a chemical or metals plant where a linear wall would be at its limit on temperature and density at once. The reason to pay for cross-linking at this size is in the cross-linked versus linear polyethylene guide: it is the liquids that stress the wall chemically, not the ones that merely weigh a lot. A fire reserve is the wrong duty for this tank; the fire-water reservoir design guide explains what a fire reserve wants and why a chemical wall is money spent on the wrong thing, though water is well inside the rating.
Class 300 from the nearer plant
The 5330000N48 ships from Lincoln, Nebraska or Philippi, West Virginia as freight at class 300 as the sheet lists it, a wide load at 142 inches; the listed price is before freight, and the freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP from the plant that will mold it. A crane stands 3,100 pounds up with straps under the body, never through the manway, and the straps to structure go on before the crane leaves. Fill it with water to the manway once and hold it, watching the pad edge and the outlet fitting for movement or a weep, then drain and dry before the chemical arrives; after that the log takes the date and strength of every load. Keep one spare gasket for the outlet fitting on the shelf, because it is the part that fails on a holiday. A strap that is checked once a season is a strap that holds; put it on the same calendar as the gutters.
Freight and documents
Ships from: Lincoln, NE; Philippi, WV. LTL freight is quoted to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator or by phone at 866-418-1777. The listed price is before freight.
Technical drawing (PDF) for Snyder Industries 5330000N48.
See this tank
Interactive 3D model with live fill. This tank has an interactive 3D model built to its manufacturer dimensions. Rotate it, and set a fill level to see how much liquid it holds at any height. Open the 3D view on the product photo above. Download the 3D model (GLB).
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