Snyder Industries 1550 Gallon ASTM Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

Three plants mold the 1840000, and class 300 changes the math

Lincoln, Marked Tree and Philippi each mold this part number, which is one plant more than most of the tanks around it and puts a molding site within a shorter haul of nearly any dock in the country: the plains, the Mid-South and the Ohio Valley. The class is the other half of the freight story. The sheet gives class 300 on this tank where the wider, shorter tanks nearby are at class 400, and that is the tall shape paying off; 64 inches across and 124 inches tall is a dense parcel on a deck rather than a wide one, so the lane rates better than the volume suggests. Run the ZIP through the freight cost estimator against the nearest of the three plants before anything is ordered, and the listed price is before freight. On site the tall shape asks for the trade in return. Ten feet four inches of empty black tank on a five foot four inch circle is the highest centre of gravity in this group, so the strapping is designed with the pad and not added afterwards: bands or cables to structure in the upper third, anchors set in the slab, checked after the first windy week and again after the first full summer, because a black wall grows in the sun and loosens what was tight. Full at the rating the sheet allows 24,561 pounds on that small circle, a heavier bearing pressure per square foot than any wide tank at the same volume, so the slab is engineered per the concrete pad sizing guide, level and in full contact, inside a berm sized to the tank where the liquid is regulated. Black passes no light to the liquid, runs warmer in the sun than white, and hides the level, so the gauge is a sender read at grade. Size the volume in the tank sizing calculator and take the reserve and the thermal freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Tall and narrow against the short and wide 1,500 and 1,600

The reason to buy this one rather than any of the five under it is the pair of numbers at the top: the 1.9 rating and the 64 inch base. Nothing else here offers both. The C26 and the C34 share this shell and this 335 pound listing and are each rated as their own sheet says; the N48 is the cross-linked polyethylene wall in the same shape, listed at 305 pounds, thirty pounds lighter than the rest of the shell, which the sheet gives and we print without explaining it. The real fork is shape. The 1770000C34 lays 1,500 gallons across an 86 inch base at 72 inches, and the SII-32118 does 1,600 gallons at 86 by 71 inches in white; both need almost twice the floor and clear a six foot roof, which is the opposite problem. If the aisle is narrow and the ceiling is high, this is the tank; if the building is low and the floor is open, one of those two is.

Not sure which one? Tell us the liquid, the site and the ceiling height at 866-418-1777, or request a written quote with freight to your ZIP.

Ten feet four inches to the lid on a sixty-four inch base

• Access, and on a tank this shape it is the first line item, not the last: the 18 inch threaded, vented manway sits at 124 inches, ten feet four inches up, on a 64 inch circle. There is no leaning a ladder against a narrow tank and no standing on the shoulder; this is a fixed platform with a rail and a gate, built when the pad is poured, and a permanent fill line landed at the lid so no driver is asked to lift a hose ten feet.
• Outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 16. The field is a bare number with no unit and no fitting named, so we print it as the sheet gives it rather than read it as a pipe size. Name the liquid and the draw-off at order and we confirm what the molding takes.
• Fill and vent: a dip tube to the floor, because a dense liquid falling ten feet inside a narrow shell is the worst splash in the family, the vent run outdoors on anything that fumes, and the vent sized to the delivery pump.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C. Warranty: 3 year.

A lid at ten feet four is opened rarely, which is why the platform has to make it easy when it happens. Every opening gets a light on the wall above the liquid line and a look at the threads and the gasket, and the date goes on the log. Ten feet of a 1.9 liquid standing above the draw-off also means the bottom fitting and the first valve see more static pressure than the same fitting on a short tank, so whatever is plumbed there is carried on its own support off the pad with a flexible connector between the tank and hard pipe, never rigid pipe bolted to the shell. Keep the manway closed between deliveries, name the liquid on the wall for the driver, and put the freeze protection on the piping and the first valve rather than the body, which takes ice from the top down.

Narrow chemical alleys and tight pads

This is the tank for a plant that has height and no floor: a dense chemical squeezed between two vessels already on the pad, a coagulant or an acid in a narrow chemical alley, a concentrated process liquid behind a building where a wide tank would block the aisle, all of it in a black wall that keeps light off the load. Where the rule or the insurer wants the chemical inside a second wall, the Captor double wall freeboard guide works out how much usable volume a contained vessel really leaves at this size. Water at 8.34 pounds per gallon is far inside the rating but a private fire reserve is a different specification in a water-rated vessel, which the fire-water reservoir design guide covers. Where a reuse train needs a dark, small-footprint holding stage between treatment steps, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a slim tank of this size sits.

Class 300, three origins, and the tie-down before the crane leaves

The sheet gives class 300 and 335 pounds shipping weight, from Lincoln, Nebraska, Marked Tree, Arkansas or Philippi, West Virginia, which is the best freight class in this batch on the smallest footprint in it; the tall parcel rates better than the wide ones and three origins mean the haul is usually short. Price the lane to your ZIP in the freight cost estimator and read the listed price as before freight. A small crane or long forks stands 335 pounds up with straps under the body, never through the manway, and on this shape the straps to structure go on before the crane pulls off the site, because a ten foot tank on a five foot base is not something to leave standing loose overnight. Water first: fill to the manway, hold it, walk the base and the pad edge, then drain and dry before the dense liquid arrives. Last thing before the crew leaves, put a level on the top rim in two directions and write the readings down; on a tall, narrow tank a pad that is a little out of level is the defect that shows up years later as a wall that wore on one side. Chalk the full-water line on the outside after the first fill; it is the level every later reading gets checked against.