Snyder Industries 10500 Gallon ASTM XLPE Black Vertical Storage Tank

Lincoln west of the river, Philippi east of it

Freight on a tank this wide is a line item that can rival the tank, so the plant matters more than the part number suggests. Lincoln, Nebraska serves the Plains, the Rockies and the upper Midwest; Philippi, West Virginia serves the Atlantic states, the Southeast and the Ohio Valley. The order goes to whichever gives the shorter lane to your ZIP, and the freight cost estimator prices that lane before the order is placed. At 2,500 pounds it is as light as any cross-linked tank in this shell to lift, which matters on the day the crane is on the clock. On the ground, full at the rating it puts 131,355 pounds, over sixty-five tons, on a circle not quite twelve feet across, and a rotationally molded floor bears on all of it, so the slab is engineered per the concrete pad sizing guide, level and in full contact, inside a berm sized to 110 percent where the liquid is regulated. Fourteen feet of empty black tank is a sail, so it is strapped to structure before the first fill, and the straps are looked at after the first storm and again after the first summer. The black wall keeps light off the load, runs warmer than white in the sun, and hides the level, so a sender read at the ground is the gauge. The tank sizing calculator checks 10,500 gallons against the dosing rate and the truck schedule; the tank sizing guide covers the reserve and the freeboard a warm liquid needs.

Three cross-linked walls and two molded walls on one 142 inch floor

This is the middle cross-linked wall. Below it the N29 is rated 1.35 at the same 2,500 pounds, for the liquids that sit near water; above it a heavier cross-linked tank in the same shell carries the top rating on its own page at a heavier weight. The C34 and C37-BLACK are the black polyethylene tanks at 2,250 pounds, each rated as its own sheet says, for the liquids that need density but not the cross-linked resin's temperature and chemistry margin. Pick this one when the liquid is under 1.5 and either runs warm or attacks a linear wall over time; pick the N29 when it is lighter still and cool; pick the heavier cross-linked tank when it is dense and aggressive at once. The 32026 and 32074 are the water tanks on the same floor, the first two inches lower and the second in a taller shell listed at 12,000 gallons.

Which wall for your chemical? Call 866-418-1777 with the name and the concentration, or send a quote request and we will pick the row.

Fourteen feet to the lid, and what stands under it

• Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway at 169 inches, fourteen feet one inch up. A fixed platform with a rail, a dip tube to the floor for the fill, a vent run outdoors on a liquid that fumes and sized to the delivery pump.
• Outlet: the sheet's outlet field reads 28, a bare number with no size, thread or material attached; we print it as given. 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 on its own support.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

What stands under a fourteen foot manway is a platform, and the platform is where the tank gets opened, sampled and, too often, filled over the rim. Fill through the dip tube instead: a liquid dropped fourteen feet onto its own surface foams, splashes the headspace wall and fumes out the vent. The head above the outlet keeps a transfer pump set below it flooded to the last few inches, and a low-level float stops the pump before it draws air. The manway stays shut between deliveries, the wall names the one chemical inside, and the headspace band gets a light at every opening. Where it freezes, the valve and the first pipe run get trace heat or insulation; the body ices from the top down without harm.

Hypochlorite and the light-sensitive middleweights

Sodium hypochlorite at a water or wastewater plant is the load this tank was made for: light degrades it, warmth degrades it faster, and its density sits well inside 1.5, so a black cross-linked wall with a 140 F / 60 C limit is the right amount of tank. Fertilizer solutions at a co-op, brine at a food plant, and the warm process liquids at an industrial plant that stands its tanks in the sun are the same buy. Where a reuse system doses a treatment chemical between its storage stages, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a chemical tank this size belongs. It is not a fire reserve; the fire-water reservoir design guide covers why a chemical wall is the wrong spend for that job even though water is well inside its rating.

One permitted load, twenty-five hundred pounds

The 5330000N46 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 from the plant that will mold it. A crane stands 2,500 pounds up with straps under the body, never through the manway, and the straps to structure go on the same day. Water first: fill it to the manway, hold it, watch the pad edge and the outlet fitting, then drain and dry before the chemical goes in. Save the pallet; a tank this wide that ever has to move again is easier to move on it. Put the part number on the maintenance log the day it lands, because in five years nobody will remember which wall this one is. Walk the base after the first hard rain; a pad that shifts shows it at the edge first.