Snyder Industries 150 Gallon ASTM XLPE Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

Philippi, West Virginia is the whole freight story on this one

One plant molds this part number and it sits in the Ohio Valley, which decides more about what this tank costs to land than anything on the spec sheet does. A 55 pound parcel 30 inches across does not price on mass; it prices on the lane and the deck space, so a dock in Pennsylvania, Ohio or the Carolinas gets a short haul and a dock in Arizona gets a long one for the same list. Run the ZIP through the freight cost estimator before the requisition, because the listed price is before freight and on a small tank the lane can be the bigger half of the decision. What arrives is light enough that people skip the ground work, and that is the mistake. Full of water this tank puts 1,251 pounds on a 30 inch circle, and at the rating 2,377 pounds, all of it bearing on the floor of the tank, because a rotationally molded base carries on its whole footprint and on nothing else. On a slab that is already there, check it is flat and in full contact under the entire base rather than rocking on a high spot; where a pad has to be poured, the concrete pad sizing guide is the framework, and a berm sized to the tank goes around it wherever the liquid is regulated. Empty, a tank 59 inches tall on a 30 inch base is light enough for wind to walk across a yard, so it gets strapped or bracketed to structure the day it lands. Black polyethylene passes no light to the liquid and takes the ultraviolet that ages a white wall; it also runs warmer in the sun and hides the level, so the gauge is a sight tube or a sender rather than an eye. Whether 150 gallons covers the draw between deliveries is a question for the tank sizing calculator, and the reserve and the thermal freeboard come out of the tank sizing guide.

The 30 inch column in four walls, and the 130 and 175 beside it

Buy this one rather than the natural white 1012800N42 when the liquid is spoiled by light: same shell, same 55 pound listing, same plant, and the black resin is the only difference that matters on the pad. The C34 and the C26 share the shell at the same weight and are each rated as their own sheet says; the C34 is the other black one, the C26 the one that is not. Off the shell, the 1007300C26 gives up gallons to sit 51 inches tall on a 29 inch base for a shelf or a cabinet that will not take this height, and the 1008400C26 goes the other way, 175 gallons at 66 inches on the same narrow 29 inch base. Grade before colour, colour before size: pick the wall the chemistry asks for, then the shape the room allows.

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Four feet eleven inches to the lid, and nothing below it

• Access, which sets everything else on a tank this shape: the 18 inch threaded, vented manway sits at 59 inches, four feet eleven inches off the floor. That is chest height on a short person and eye height on nobody, which means it is filled and inspected from the ground without a ladder, and it is the one height in the vertical range where a delivery hose goes over the rim by hand.
• Outlet: the sheet gives the outlet field as "1 Manway / Lid" and lists no bottom fitting size at all. We print the field as it stands rather than guess a bulkhead. Name the liquid and the draw-off you need at order and we confirm what this molding takes before anything is cut.
• Fill and vent: an 18 inch opening is wide enough to drop a dip tube to the floor, which is worth doing so the incoming stream does not free-fall and foam in the headspace; the vent goes outdoors on anything that fumes, and it is sized to the pump that fills the tank rather than to the fitting nearest to hand.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C, as this sheet gives it. Warranty: 3 year.

A reachable lid is the best and the worst thing about this tank. It means the wall above the liquid line, the band that sees vapour and not liquid, can be looked at with a light every week instead of once a year, and the headspace wall thickness article explains why that band is where small tanks fail first. It also means the lid gets opened for no reason, so every opening goes on the log and nothing opens that is not on the log. Keep it shut between deliveries so vapour stays in and rain stays out, and put the one liquid's name on the wall in letters a driver reads from the truck. Where it freezes, protect the piping and the first valve rather than the body; a polyethylene tank ices from the top down without harm.

Dark storage for small chemical feeds

A black 150 in a cross-linked wall is a dosing tank: hypochlorite at a small water system where the drum-a-week habit has become a nuisance, a fertiliser or micronutrient solution at a greenhouse that has to stay out of the light, a bath chemical beside a plating line, or a polymer feed on a treatment skid. The XLPE versus HDPE article is the honest guide to whether the cross-linked wall is what your chemistry actually needs or whether you are paying for it out of habit. Water at 8.34 pounds per gallon sits far inside the rating, but a private fire reserve is a different specification in a water-rated vessel at a size this cannot reach, which the fire-water reservoir design guide sets out.

Class 300 on a 55 pound parcel

The sheet gives class 300 and 55 pounds shipping weight out of Philippi, West Virginia. That combination is worth understanding: 55 pounds is nothing to a carrier and 30 inches by 59 inches is real space on a deck, so the bill is written against the cube and the distance, which is exactly why the ZIP goes into the freight cost estimator before the purchase order and why the listed price is before freight. Two people take it off a liftgate without equipment, hands under the base and never a strap through the manway, and it goes straight to where it will live rather than into a corner to be dragged later; a dragged tank picks up scuffs on the base that nobody inspects until there is a damp patch under it. Then water: fill it to the manway, leave it standing overnight, and look under the base and around the fitting area in the morning before the real liquid goes anywhere near it. The hydrostatic test methodology article has the hold times worth using. Write the delivery date on the manway rim with a paint marker the day it lands, because on a small tank that outlives three operators it is the only record that never gets misfiled. Keep the first delivery's paperwork with the tank; strength and date on day one is the baseline for every batch after.