Snyder Industries 12500 Gallon ASTM XLPE Black Vertical Storage Tank

Where a 12,500 gallon dark tank earns the pad

Cross-linked polyethylene handles chemistry and heat that soften or attack a linear wall, and the 140 F service limit is the practical reason to choose it. The 1.5 rating keeps it to liquids no heavier than 1.5 times water: warm process solutions, treatment chemicals that need the resin, warm wash water held in bulk out of the light. If the liquid is also dense, the heavy duty cross-linked tank in this shell is the right buy. A rotationally moulded floor bears on its whole floor, so 156,375 lb lands on the 142 inch circle; engineer the slab to our concrete pad sizing guide, level and in full contact, inside containment sized to the tank where the liquid is regulated. Where a second wall is required, our double wall freeboard sizing guide works out the usable volume a contained vessel returns once a warm liquid's expansion is accounted for. Band the empty shell to structure or to slab anchors before the first fill. Check the volume in the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

What to check before you buy

1. The liquid and its temperature. 1.5 and 140 F are limits. Write both next to the liquid's name on the wall, and tell us before you order if either is close.
2. The outlet. This page lists the manway, not a bottom fitting. Tell us the liquid and the draw-off you need and we will confirm what this tank accepts before anything is cut. The base fitting sits on its own support off the pad with a flexible connector to hard pipe.
3. The manway. 18 inch threaded and vented, 198 inches above the pad: a fixed platform with a rail and a gate or a caged ladder to a landing, a permanent fill line landed at the manway, a dip tube to the floor, and the vent run outdoors on anything that fumes.

Black hides the level, so a sender with a readout at the ground belongs in the install. Snyder's drawing for this tank is linked under Technical Drawing on this page.

The other walls in this shell, and the sizes either side

The same 142 inch shell in other walls: the cross-linked 12500 gallon XLPE vertical tank 5350000N40, the linear 12500 gallon black heavy duty tank 5350000C34 for a dense but cool liquid, and the 12500 gallon black vertical tank 5350000C37-BLACK for one no heavier than water. Either side in volume: the 12000 gallon white vertical tank 32074 and the 15000 gallon heavy duty tank 3030100C26.

Shipping and receiving

The tank ships at freight class 300, 142 by 142 by 198 inches, 3,100 lb, from Snyder's plant at Lincoln, Nebraska, on an open deck as a permitted wide load. Put your ZIP into the freight cost estimator and walk the route in before the order. The listed price is before freight. Unload with a crane or a heavy forklift, straps under the body, never a sling through the manway. Check the part number against 5350000N46 on the bill of lading. Fill it with cold water to the manway before anything warm goes in and walk the base and the containment floor while it holds. Where a reuse train needs a bulk dark holding stage, our industrial water reuse tank topology article places a vessel this size; a private fire reserve is its own specification, as our fire water reservoir design guide explains.

Ready to order? Add it to your cart at the top of this page, get LTL freight to your ZIP, or call 866-418-1777. The listed price is before freight.