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

The batch tank a wash bay fills every morning

This tank gets bought for work that happens on a daily cycle. A wash bay or truck wash mixes a batch of soap or reclaim chemistry into it and draws it down by the end of the shift. A municipal operator uses it as a small polymer or hypochlorite day tank feeding a metering pump. A shop fills it with a rinse or cleaning solution, runs it through the week, dumps it and starts again. A farm or ranch keeps it as a treatment or nutrient tank the sprayer pulls from. In all of those the tank is refilled by hose or by pump from a tote, which is why the 8 inch lid matters more than it sounds: an opening you can get a hose, a mixer shaft and your arm through is the difference between a tank people maintain and a tank people replace. The delivery is the simplest part of the purchase. At 58 pounds it comes on a pallet on an LTL trailer, off the deck with a forklift or two people and a liftgate, no crane and no escort, and it is in service the day it lands provided somebody arranged the unload in advance. What deserves the planning instead is where it stands. A 34 inch square of floor under the base has to be flat and in full contact, because a rotationally molded floor bears on every part of what it touches, and 1251 pounds of water sitting on two high spots on a worn slab is how a small tank develops a flat side. On poured concrete, size it by the framework in the concrete pad sizing guide; on a steel stand, level the stand and keep the whole base bearing. Where the liquid is regulated the tank sits inside containment sized to it. Run 150 gallons against the daily draw in the tank sizing calculator before you commit, and take the reserve and freeboard numbers from the tank sizing guide.

Two ways to hold 150 gallons

There are two different 150 gallon tanks on this list and the split is the shell, not the volume. This one is the 34 by 61 inch molding at 58 pounds with an 8 inch lid published on its sheet, and it is the one to buy when the tank gets opened, mixed in and hosed out regularly, and when the liquid also needs light kept off it. The three 1012800 parts are the 30 by 59 inch molding at 55 pounds, each rated as its own sheet says, with the C34 as the black option and the C26 and N42 as the natural walls where reading the level through the shell is worth more than shading the contents. Either side of 150 gallons, the 1007300C26 holds 130 gallons at 51 inches and the 1008400C26 stacks 175 gallons into a 29 inch circle at 66 inches. This tank sits in the middle of the group on height and is the widest of them on the floor.

Need a different size? Every tank in the table is in stock programs; ask for a quote on the one that fits, or call 866-418-1777.

Suction, prime, and the 8 inch lid above it

• Pump and suction: set the transfer or metering pump below the base fitting so the suction floods and the pump primes itself, and keep the leg from tank to pump short with no high point for air to sit in. With 61 inches of liquid above the base there is enough head to prime a small diaphragm or gear pump reliably, but the bottom few inches of any tank are where a pump loses suction first, so a low level float or dry run cutout is the part that protects the pump on a batch duty where the tank is meant to be drawn down. If a mixer runs in the tank, keep the pump suction away from the mixer draw so it is not pulling entrained air.
• Outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 1 Manway / Lid and publishes no bottom fitting diameter, material, thread or gasket. The draw-off is specified at order against your liquid and pipe; nothing is printed here that the sheet does not carry.
• Access and venting: 8 inch lid on the top head, 61 inches up, reachable from a low step. Fill down a dip tube rather than free-falling into the tank, keep the lid gasket clean so it seats, and run the vent outdoors on anything that fumes, sized to the pump doing the filling rather than to the lid.
• Structural: the sheet lists one flange line on the body.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

An 8 inch opening is generous on a 150 gallon tank and it changes the habits around the vessel: people put mixer shafts, level floats, fill hoses and cleaning wands through it, and every one of those is a chance to leave the lid unseated. Shut it between batches. Beyond the lid, the ordinary discipline applies. The connector from fitting to hard pipe is flexible so pump vibration and thermal movement do not load the wall, the first valve sits on its own support, and a spare gasket for the specified fitting lives on the shelf. Name the one liquid on the wall in letters readable from the door. Put a light on the band of wall above the liquid line at every opening, because on a batch tank that band is wet, dry and vapor-soaked in turn, and it ages faster than the wall under the liquid. Where the site freezes, protect the valve and the first pipe run; the body takes ice from the top down.

What a 150 gallon black tank gets bought for

Soap, reclaim and pre-soak batches at a wash bay; polymer and hypochlorite day tanks at a small plant; rinse, strip and cleaning solution in a shop; sanitizer and detergent make-up at a food site; nutrient and treatment stock on a farm; and dye, ink or additive batching wherever light degrades what is inside. The black wall exists for that last reason, and the cost of it is that nobody can see the level through the shell, so a sight tube or a float gauge is part of the install rather than an accessory. The wall grade is the other half of the decision, and the cross-linked versus high density comparison is the place to settle whether your chemistry actually needs the cross-linked wall or whether the high density one is honest for the duty. If containment is going to be required around the tank, the Captor double wall freeboard guide shows what a second wall takes out of usable volume, which is the figure that decides whether 150 gallons is still enough.

Marked Tree, Arkansas at class 300

The 5710100N48 is molded at Marked Tree, Arkansas and moves as freight at class 300 as the sheet lists it, 34 inches by 34 inches by 61 inches on the pallet. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. At 58 pounds the unload is a forklift or a liftgate and two people, and the only way this delivery goes badly is nobody at the receiving end having a way to get a pallet off a trailer. Water test before product: fill it, hold it a shift, read the base, the stand and whatever fitting was specified at order, then drain and dry. Check that the lid gasket seats clean on the first close, because on a tank that gets opened every day that gasket is the part that decides whether vapor stays inside. Keep the first delivery's paperwork with the tank; strength and date on day one is the baseline for every batch after.