Snyder Industries 5000 Gallon ASTM Black Vertical Storage Tank

The duty: a 5,000 gallon working tank at 950 pounds empty

This is the bulk vessel for the plant that takes deliveries and uses them, not the one storing something exotic. A water or wastewater system holding a dosing solution between tankers, a co-op with a fertilizer solution, a food or beverage plant with a cleaning solution or a surfactant, a truck wash banking wash water, a manufacturer that wants its process water in one place instead of five totes: 5,000 gallons is roughly a tanker, and the tanker is what the receiving side is built around. The delivery arrives lying on a flatbed and is stood up on the pad, which at 950 pounds empty is the easiest lift in this shell and the reason a lot of sites pick this row. Light and tall is also the combination that moves in wind, so the bands go to anchors set in the concrete before the first fill and get read again after the first hot week, and the empty tank is never left standing loose over a weekend. Under it, a molded floor bears on the whole 102 inch circle rather than on a ring, so it follows a low quarter of the slab instead of bridging it: engineered, level, in full contact under the entire base, per the concrete pad sizing guide, holding 41,700 pounds of water, or as much as 62,550 pounds of contents at the rating this sheet gives, inside a berm sized to the tank wherever the liquid is regulated. Above it, 154 inches plus the lid, the fill line and the vent is what the clear height has to cover. The black wall passes no light to the liquid and hides the level, so the sender reads at grade. Take 5,000 gallons to the tank sizing calculator against the feed rate, and the reserve and freeboard to the tank sizing guide.

Same 154 inch shell, four walls, three of them at 950 pounds

Four rows of this table are the same 102 by 154 inch shell at the same 950 pounds, so the honest way to choose among them is by what each sheet rates the wall for and by nothing else. This page is the 1.5 listing, and 1.5 is the rating that covers process water, rinse water, wash water and the lighter solutions, which is most of what a 5,000 gallon vessel actually holds; the C34, the C37-BLACK and the N40 are each rated as their own sheets say, and the same shell is also molded in a heavier-duty grade that this sheet does not rate, so if the liquid is denser than water that is the conversation to have rather than this row. Step outside the shell and you are trading footprint for height in one direction and volume for both in the other: the 5480000N40 stacks 4,900 gallons onto a 90 inch base at 202 inches, four feet taller, for a site with sky and no floor, and the SII-32372 is the white tank at 5,100 gallons on the same 102 inch base at 159 inches and 1,301 pounds. Pick this one when the liquid weighs about what water weighs, the ceiling is around thirteen feet, and the crew setting it would rather handle 950 pounds than anything heavier.

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

What the pump needs from a 5,000 gallon column

• Pump: put the transfer pump below the outlet so the 154 inch column primes it by gravity, keep the suction run short, and fit a low-level float so it shuts down before it draws air. A pump that runs dry on a wash-water tank is a pump that gets replaced twice a year.
• Outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 23. There is no fitting diameter, material, thread or gasket on it, so that figure is not a pipe size and we do not present it as one; the draw-off is specified at order.
• Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway at the top of 154 inches of shell, off the ladder lugs the sheet lists.
• Handling: eight lifting lugs and two flange lines are what the sheet lists.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C. Warranty: 3 year.

The fitting decision that pays for itself here is height, and low is right: a bulkhead near the floor line leaves almost nothing behind, while one set high leaves a heel that never moves and turns into a cleaning task. Decide it with the pump in front of you rather than after the plumbing is drawn. A flexible connector goes between the bulkhead and hard pipe so thermal movement and pump vibration do not feed into the wall, and the first valve stands on its own support off the pad. A vented lid vents the tank, not the fumes, so if the liquid gives any off, run a vent line where they should go and size it for the delivery pump, because a truck can push air in faster than a small vent passes it out. Between deliveries the lid stays shut and latched, the level comes off a sender at grade rather than off a climb, and the wall above the working level gets a light every time the manway does come off, because the headspace band is where a wall ages first. In freezing country protect the valve and the first pipe run rather than the shell, and keep a spare gasket for the outlet fitting on the shelf; it is the part that fails on a holiday.

Process water, wash water and dosing solutions at 5,000 gallons

The list is short and it is most of the market: rinse or wash water at a shop, a truck wash or a fleet yard; process water at a manufacturer that would otherwise run a row of totes; a light dosing solution at a small water or wastewater system; a soap, surfactant or mild acid at a food plant; cooling or make-up water anywhere a tanker delivery makes sense. A fire reserve follows its own sizing discipline and belongs in a water-duty vessel, which the fire-water reservoir design guide covers properly. Where a plant is banking rinse water, rainwater or condensate to use again, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows which band of the train a 5,000 gallon vessel belongs in. Name the liquid at order either way, because the fitting and the gasket are chosen for it.

Class 300 off the West Virginia lane

Freight is class 300 as the sheet lists it, out of Philippi, West Virginia, and a 950 pound tank measuring 102 by 154 inches loads as one permitted piece rather than as parcel freight. Get the number for your ZIP from the freight cost estimator, and remember the listed price is before freight. Unload off the eight lifting lugs or with straps under the body, never with a hook in the manway, and take the shipping straps off before a forklift touches it. Water first: fill to the manway, hold it a shift, and read the base and the fitting you specified before the product arrives. Once it is full and holding, leave it alone for a day before the plumbing goes on, because a settled tank is a quiet one. Save the pallet; a tank that ever has to move again is easier to move on it.