Snyder Industries 2000 Gallon Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

The low 2,000 for a dense liquid

Seven feet tall is the point of this tank. It goes under a low chemical room ceiling, a lean-to or a mezzanine, the manway is opened from the floor by most people, and the low, wide shape sits steady in wind. Snyder makes a 2,000 gallon heavy duty tank on a narrower, taller base under a different part number but the same name, so order by part number and tell us the ceiling height. The buyer is a small water plant with a ferric or alum day tank, a plating shop with acid, or a food plant with brine: liquids dense enough to need the 1.9 wall, in a room that is not tall. Full of water it weighs 2,000 x 8.34 = 16,680 lb plus the tank, and a liquid at the 1.9 rating almost twice that, on a 96 inch circle. A polyethylene tank bears on its whole floor, so the pad is a slab in full contact or a compacted, screeded base per our concrete pad sizing guide, inside a berm where the liquid is regulated. The tank sizing calculator checks the volume against your feed rate and delivery interval; the tank sizing guide covers the headspace a dense chemical needs as it warms. If you are weighing Snyder against the other makers at this size, our 2000 gallon vertical tank comparison lays the three out side by side.

What goes in it

Check the liquid against polyethylene in our chemical compatibility guide before you order and tell us what it is so the outlet fitting is matched to it. White runs cooler in the sun than black but passes some light, so a liquid that breaks down in light belongs in the black version of this tank. For a water reserve the fire water reservoir design guide covers the polyethylene tank's role, and the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a tank this size sits in a reuse train.

Openings and fittings

1. Outlet. A 2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting low in the wall. Seven feet of liquid above it keeps a metering pump at pad level flooded; add a calibration column, a strainer for the scale a dense chemical drops as it cools, and a low level float. Support the valve and the first pipe run off the pad and trace or insulate them where winters freeze; the body ices from the top down without harm.
2. Manway. An 18 inch threaded vented manway on top, 84 inches up, within reach from the floor for most people. Fill through a dip tube or a screened manway, pipe the vent outside on anything that fumes, and size the vent for the delivery pump.
3. Freeboard. Fill to the shoulder; a dense liquid grows as it warms and the headspace absorbs it.
4. Drawing. Snyder's drawing, linked under Technical Drawing on this page, gives the fitting positions.

Sizes nearby

The standard wall on this same low shell: the 2000 gallon vertical tank 5050300C37. Snyder's 2,000 gallon tanks on the narrower base: the 2000 gallon heavy duty vertical tank 5050000C26, the 2000 gallon black heavy duty vertical tank and the 2000 gallon black vertical tank. In cross-linked polyethylene, the 1900 gallon ASTM XLPE vertical tank; one size up with this wall, the 2500 gallon heavy duty vertical tank.

Shipping and receiving

The tank ships LTL at freight class 400 from Chowchilla, California, 96 by 96 by 84 inches on a pallet. The listed price is before freight; the freight cost estimator gives the lane cost to your ZIP. Two people and a forklift set 420 lb on the pad with straps under the body, never through the manway; at 96 inches across it goes around a building, not through a door. Check the part number 5050300C26 against the bill of lading, look over the floor edge and the outlet fitting, fill it with water the first time and hold it a day, then drain and dry it before the chemical arrives.

Questions before you order? Call 866-418-1777.