Snyder Industries 4500 Gallon ASTM XLPE Black Vertical Storage Tank

Molded in California or Nebraska, shipped from whichever is closer

Chowchilla, California molds this tank for the West Coast and Lincoln, Nebraska molds it for the Plains, the Midwest and the Mountain West, and the order goes to the plant with the shorter lane to your ZIP; the freight cost estimator prices that lane before you order. At 900 pounds and 102 inches across it is one of the easier loads in the catalog: a permitted flatbed load, a forklift lift at the pad, no crane day. The narrow footprint is the point. An eight and a half foot circle fits behind a building, between two existing tanks, or in a bay where a ten foot tank would block the aisle. Full at the rating it puts 56,295 pounds, more than twenty-eight tons, on that circle, so the pad is engineered per the concrete pad sizing guide, level and in full contact, inside a berm sized to 110 percent where the liquid is regulated. A light, slim tank nearly twelve feet tall is the easiest tank in the yard for the wind to move when empty; strap it to structure before the first fill, with anchors set in the slab, and check the straps after the first windy week and the first summer. The black wall keeps light off the load, runs warmer than white in the sun, and hides the level, so a sender read at the ground is the gauge. The tank sizing calculator checks 4,500 gallons against feed rate and delivery interval; the tank sizing guide covers the reserve and the freeboard a warm liquid needs.

The slim 4,500 against the wide one

Same weight, opposite shape. The 7000400 N-grades put 4,500 gallons on a 143 inch base at 91 inches tall, also 900 pounds, rated 1.35, for a site with floor to spare and a roof under eight feet; this tank puts the same volume on 102 inches at 142 tall for a site with the opposite problem. A heavier-walled twin in this slim shell carries the top rating on its own page for liquids that are dense as well as aggressive; buy this one when the liquid is under 1.5. The 5210000N40 is slimmer and taller still at 4,400 gallons on 90 inches, and the 7000500N40 puts 4,600 gallons on a ten foot base at 116 inches, the middle ground.

Ready to choose a row? Add the 4500 gallon tank to your cart above with freight quoted to your ZIP, or 866-418-1777 will confirm it against the site first.

Reaching the lid at eleven feet ten inches

• Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway at 142 inches, eleven feet ten inches up. A fixed platform with a rail, tied to structure rather than to the tank; a slim shell is not a thing to lean a ladder on. Fill through a dip tube to the floor, vent outdoors on a liquid that fumes, size the vent to the delivery pump.
• Outlet: the sheet's outlet field reads 23, a bare number with no size, thread or material attached; we print it as given. Name the liquid at order and the bulkhead fitting, gasket and bolting are specified to it, with a flexible connector to hard pipe and the first valve on its own support.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

Nearly twelve feet of head above the outlet keeps a transfer pump set below it flooded to the last few inches, and the tank drains in a shift; a low-level float stops the pump before it draws air. The head loads the fitting and the first valve, so the valve stands on its own support and the connector is flexible. Everything routine happens at the ground: the level on a sender, the sample from a tap on the outlet line, the fill through the dip tube. The lid stays shut between deliveries so vapor stays in and rain stays out, the wall names the one chemical inside, and the headspace band gets a light at every opening. Where it freezes, the valve and the first pipe run get trace heat or insulation; the body takes ice from the top down.

Hypochlorite and the middleweights, in the sun

Sodium hypochlorite at a water plant that stores outdoors in the Central Valley sun, a nitrogen solution at a co-op with a narrow chemical alley, warm brine at a food plant, and a warm process liquid at an industrial plant that has height and no floor. When site rules call for a second wall, the Captor double wall freeboard guide works out what a contained tank gives up in usable volume at this size. Where a reuse system doses a treatment chemical between its storage stages, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a slim tank this size fits. A fire reserve wants a water wall; the fire-water reservoir design guide explains why, though water is well inside this tank's rating.

The lightest slim tank in its class

The 7420000N46 ships from Chowchilla, California or Lincoln, Nebraska as freight at class 300 as the sheet lists it; at 102 inches across and 142 inches long on the deck it is a permitted load, the listed price is before freight, and the freight cost estimator prices the lane from the plant that will mold it. A forklift with long forks or a small crane sets 900 pounds on the pad with straps under the body, never through the manway, and the straps to structure go on before the truck leaves. Fill it with water to the manway once and hold it, watching the pad edge and the outlet fitting for movement or a weep, then drain and dry before the chemical goes in. Leave room to walk all the way around it; the side of the tank nobody can see is the side that leaks.