Snyder Industries 110 Gallon XLPE Open Top Batch Storage Tank

Batch mixing, and why the bottom matters more than the top

The duty is batching, and a batch vessel is judged on how completely and how quickly it empties, not on how much it holds. Somebody makes up a hundred gallons of something, mixes it, uses it or transfers it, and then does it again with a different formulation an hour later. That cycle punishes any tank with a flat floor and a small drain: the last few gallons take longer than the first hundred, the residue carries into the next batch, and the operator ends up tipping or siphoning. This tank is arranged for the opposite. It has a 3 inch outlet at the bottom and a sloped bottom in a 30 by 30 inch plan, and 3 inches on a 110 gallon vessel is a wide throat by any measure: a large opening drains fast, tolerates solids that would bridge a narrow one, and lets the vessel be genuinely rinsed between products instead of merely emptied. That is the argument for this tank over a plain drum or a flat-bottomed cylinder of the same volume. The height is the second half of it. Forty-six inches puts the top rim just below chest height on most people, which is where you want it for adding material, reading the batch and getting a mixer shaft in, while still leaving room under the outlet for a valve, a hose and a receiving container if the tank is raised. The sheet publishes no stand, no legs and no support ring, so whatever holds it up is a separate item settled before the order, and it is the item that decides how much clearance you have under that 3 inch outlet; the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix is where that gets compared across makers. Whatever it stands on has to be flat, level and continuous under the whole base. Empty this tank is 33 pounds, which is the lightest thing in its batch and light enough that one person moves it; full of water the sheet gives 917 pounds and at the rating 1,743 pounds, and that load arrives on a 30 inch square of floor. Size the batch honestly in the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide, because a mixed batch needs headroom that a stored one does not.

Sixty-five, a hundred and ten, a hundred and fifty

Two of these four are the same 110 gallon shell at the same 30 by 30 by 46 inches and the same 33 pounds, listed under different names, and the sheet explains nothing about what separates them; we print the names and leave the interpretation alone. Where a plant drawing or a spares list already names one, match it. The choice that actually matters is up and down the volume column, and the key to it is the plan. This tank and the 65 gallon 1560000N51 share the identical 30 inch square footprint; the smaller one is simply fifteen inches shorter at 31 inches tall and ten pounds lighter at 23 pounds. That means you can change your mind about batch size later without re-planning the bench, the bund or the stand, which is unusually convenient in a room where several batch vessels stand side by side. The 150 gallon 32101 breaks that pattern: at 36 inches square it is six inches wider each way and 48 inches tall at 45 pounds, so it needs its own space and its own support. Choose on the batch you actually make. A vessel routinely filled to a third is a vessel that is too big, because the mixer is then working in the wrong part of the tank and the rinse water volume is set by the shell rather than the batch. A vessel filled to the brim every time has nowhere to go when somebody adds a little too much. The 65 and the 110 on one footprint let you get that right on the second try without buying the room twice.

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The 3 inch outlet and the drain path under it

• The outlet: 3 inches, as the sheet lists it, and it is the feature that defines this tank. Three inches drains a 110 gallon batch quickly, handles a liquid carrying solids far better than a narrow drain, and gives a rinse cycle somewhere to go. Where the discharge is sized against drain time and bulkhead choice, the cone bottom discharge engineering guide on bulkhead sizing does the arithmetic properly.
• The valve and what hangs on it: the sheet publishes no valve, no bulkhead hardware and no dip tube. Whatever goes on the outlet is carried on its own support, not hung off the tank, and a flexible connector at the first joint keeps a pump's vibration out of the wall.
• Draining and solids: a wide outlet is only half the answer if the material packs. Where the product carries solids, the outlet geometry and the angle above it decide whether the vessel empties or plugs, and the outlet sizing guide for high solids against low solids service works through the particle size arithmetic.
• The top: the sheet's name calls this an open top batch storage tank and its fittings record lists a 10 inch threaded vented manway. Both are on the sheet and both are printed. We claim no cover, no gasket and no seal, and if the arrangement on top matters to your process, ask us to confirm it against the part before it ships.
• Filling and mixing: no inlet is published, so the fill route is over the top as the arrangement allows. Any mixer, shaft or agitator is a separate item carried on its own frame, never on the tank rim.
• Limits: 120 F / 48 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.9, and no warranty term on this sheet.

Name the product when you order. On a batch vessel the gasket, the valve body and the seat material follow the chemistry, and a wide outlet with the wrong seat is a slow leak onto the floor you stand on.

Small batch make-up where the vessel has to run dry

A hundred and ten gallons with a wide bottom outlet is bought for make-up and transfer rather than storage: polymer and coagulant batching at a small water or wastewater plant, cleaning and sanitising solution make-up in food, beverage and dairy plants, plating and metal finishing bath preparation, laboratory and pilot plant scale-up, dye, ink and pigment blending, nursery and greenhouse nutrient mixing, and any operation that makes a fresh batch daily and cannot carry residue into the next one. The tell is always the same: if your people are tipping a drum, siphoning the last few gallons, or rinsing three times to be sure, the vessel is wrong and not the procedure. Buy a tank that empties through a wide outlet and most of that disappears. Where several formulations run through the same room, one tank per product with the name painted on the shell beats one tank cleaned between products, every time.

Thirty-three pounds out of Nebraska

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the sheet lists Nebraska as the state it ships from, which is a central lane into the plains and the Midwest. The freight class is given as LTL, a mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-02, and it measures 30 inches square by 46 inches tall. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Thirty-three pounds is light enough for one person to carry and that is exactly the trap: a tank this light is also a tank the wind takes across a yard, so keep it strapped to the pallet until the stand or the bench is ready for it. Lift it by the body, never by the manway and never by the outlet. Set it on its support, level it in both directions and secure it, then fill it with clean water and hold that 917 pound load while you read the outlet joint, the base and the support feet. Open the outlet and time the drain with clean water in it, because that number is the one you will plan every batch changeover around for the rest of the tank's life. Write it on the tank. Check the strap tension a week after the first fill; a tank settles a little, and the strap that was tight is loose.