Snyder Industries 405 Gallon Sodium Hypochlorite (UV) Double Wall Tank

One plant, one state, and a shipment a tail lift can take

Chowchilla, California is the only plant on this sheet and California the only ship-from state, so the lane is the first thing to settle: the West Coast and the Southwest are short hauls, and everything east of the mountains is a planned move that deserves a price before the capacity is fixed. What makes that manageable is the shipment. Freight is LTL at class 250, and the tank ships at 48 by 48 by 73 inches and 250 pounds, which is one pallet position at a weight a tail lift and a pallet truck handle between them. Of every contained vessel in this part of the family, this is the easiest one to get to a site that has no dock, no forklift and no maintenance crew standing by, and that is a real part of why a four foot plan exists at all. The four foot square is the other half of it. A 48 inch base is the largest contained tank in this range that still behaves like a piece of equipment rather than a building project: it sits on a standard pallet footprint, it can be turned in an aisle with a little planning, and it goes into a bay without the wall opening the six and seven foot shells need. It will not pass a 36 inch doorway, so the route in is a shutter or a bay door, but the number of buildings that can take a four foot shipment is far larger than the number that can take the sizes above it. The floor is the part people underestimate on a mid-size tank. Above that 48 inch base sits 3,378 pounds of water at 8.34 pounds per gallon and 6,418 pounds at the published 1.9 rating, concentrated on a small footprint, so the surface has to be flat, continuous and level across the whole base with no rail, no timber and no shim at a corner. Anywhere other than a ground floor slab, the support is a calculation rather than an assumption. Where the base is being poured for it, the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks sets out the framework and the boundary of it. Containment comes with the tank rather than being built round it, which is the whole case against a constructed bund at this volume; where a site has to document how its own arrangements are put together, our Snyder Captor double wall containment walkthrough lays out that framework, and nothing on this page is a claim that this part number satisfies any rule. Before you commit, read the double wall freeboard sizing guide, because the volume you can use is not the nameplate figure, and put your consumption through the tank sizing calculator with the discipline from the tank sizing guide.

Four 405s, a 360 and a 500

Four listings share this exact 48 by 48 by 73 inch shell at the identical 250 pounds, and what separates them is the name, the colour and the material field the maker assigns to each. Every name is printed as the sheet spells it, brackets and all, and none is interpreted, because a product name carries no specification with it. Tell us what you are storing and at what strength and we will name the part number; that is a conversation rather than a code in a table. This listing is the opaque white one, and the practical consequence is that the working level can be read through the wall from across the room, which matters on a vessel whose only published opening is a manway at 73 inches. The two other rows move in opposite directions and they are the most useful comparison on the page. The 360 gallon 5760102N30 holds less but is wider and shorter at 53 inches square and 63 inches tall, and the sheet lists it at the same 250 pounds as this tank; that is the row for a low ceiling or a site that wants the manway reachable from the floor, and it costs floor area to get there. The 500 gallon 5780102N42 keeps that same 53 inch plan and goes up to 81 inches at 290 pounds, buying its extra volume entirely with height. So across the three the plan area takes only two values and the gallons are bought in the vertical. This tank is the only one of the three on the narrower 48 inch plan, which makes it the one that fits the tightest opening and the smallest reserved floor space, and that is precisely the argument for it.

Comparing against another maker? Send the competing spec to 866-418-1777 or a quote request and we will show the differences honestly.

Getting product in through an eighteen inch opening

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway on top is the only opening published, and on a tank of this capacity that is a generous one. It is the fill route, the inspection route and the cleaning route at the same time, so plan the fill connection, any suction and any instrument you want to drop in as a single arrangement.
• Reaching it: the top of the shell is at 73 inches, which is around head height, so a low step serves for everyday work and the fill connection should still come down to working level so a driver never climbs.
• The vent: the manway is listed as vented, and that path protects the wall while a fill pushes air out and while a pump draws the level down. Keep it clear, inspect it whenever the manway is opened, and never restrict it to control an odour.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid, which names an opening and not a pipe size, and the inlet field is blank. No outlet dimension, thread, flange or valve is published on this sheet and none is claimed here. Tell us the duty and the line size before the pump is chosen and we will confirm what this part number carries.
• Pump arrangement: with the published route in and out at the top, the usual arrangement at this size is a suction line and strainer dropped through the manway to a metering pump alongside. Keep the suction short, set the strainer clear of the bottom so the settled last inch is not the first thing it lifts, and support the hose on its own bracket rather than on the manway rim.
• The space between the walls: no monitoring port, gauge or alarm is published, and the sheet gives no stand, no legs, no lifting lugs, no ladder lugs and no flange lines either.
• Limits: 120 F / 48 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.9, and a 3 Year Warranty.

Name the product and its strength at order time. On a vessel this size the manway seal and the suction fitting are very nearly the whole wetted system, and choosing either generically is the one mistake that matters.

Point of use dosing where a tote used to stand

Four hundred and five gallons is roughly the point where a tote programme stops making sense and a hose fill starts to: a metering station on a treatment skid, a chemical feed point at a package or small municipal water plant, a disinfection room at a works, a pool and aquatics plant room, a cooling tower or boiler house dosing point, a laundry or vehicle wash, a plating or finishing line, and food, beverage and dairy skids that dose steadily. The comparison with the tote is the honest one. A tote has to be lifted, swapped and stored somewhere, it sits in whatever tray is available, and nobody can tell you when the tray was last checked. A purpose-made contained vessel stays where it is put, takes a fill through a hose, gives you a defined space to inspect and a date to write down, and moves the site onto a bulk chemical cost per gallon rather than a per-container price. The pale shell adds the one thing an operator uses every shift, which is a level readable from the floor.

Two hundred and fifty pounds, one pallet position, California

Chowchilla, California is the only plant on this sheet and California the only ship-from state, so the West and the Southwest are the short lanes and everything further east is a move to price properly before the order. Freight is LTL at class 250 with no NMFC number, and the shipping size is listed at 48 by 48 by 73 inches at 250 pounds. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. This is the easiest shipment in the mid range to receive: a four foot square on one pallet position at 250 pounds, a tail lift on most lanes, and a pallet truck at your end rather than a crane. The one thing to measure is height, because a shipment six feet one tall on the ground is taller again sitting on a pallet, so walk the route and note every lintel, shutter guide and overhead pipe run at the lowest point rather than the entrance. Take it under the base, never by the manway. Set it on the finished, level surface in the final position before anything is connected, then fill it with clean water and hold the 3,378 pound load while you read the manway seal, the base all the way round and the surface beneath it. Drain it, let it dry, open the space between the walls, look at it in good light and write the date on the shell. Then label the tank with its contents in paint marker the same day; an unlabelled vessel in a busy plant room is the one somebody eventually tops up with the wrong thing. Save the pallet; a tank that ever has to move again is easier to move on it.