Snyder Industries 5000 Gallon ASTM XLPE Black Double Wall Tank

One plant, one lane, and an oversize load out of Nebraska

Buy this tank and you are also buying a haul, so start there. The sheet names one plant, Lincoln, Nebraska, and publishes no ship-from state field at all, which means the lane is Lincoln to your gate and nothing more is claimed about it here. The shipping size is 102 inches by 102 inches by 216 inches at 3,600 pounds, which is eighteen feet tall on an eight and a half foot square: a shape that rides fine on a flatbed and then stops at the first low door head, gate frame or overhead service on your site. Freight is LTL at class 250 with no NMFC number. Price your own lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Lead time and haul are also the argument for buying the volume once rather than twice. At 5,000 gallons the sheet gives 41,700 pounds of water at capacity, and the fewer times a truck has to make that trip, the better the bulk chemical cost per gallon works out over the life of the installation. The reason to specify this row rather than a shellmate is the pair of numbers on its own sheet. The service limit is 140 F / 60 C, which is the higher figure available in this shell and the one to hold against your real worst case: clean-in-place solution held at temperature, heated rinse water, a product that comes off the tanker warm, a bay that bakes under a steel roof. The rating is a specific gravity of 1.5, carrying 62,550 pounds of maximum contents against 41,700 pounds of plain water at 8.34 pounds per gallon, which is margin over water rather than provision for something much denser. Warm and close to water is a narrower specification than it sounds, and this listing is written for exactly that. The material field reads crosslinked linear polyethylene, and that is the whole of what this page will say about resin, because a resin word is not a compatibility statement. Colour is black, so nothing is readable through the wall and the level instrument is part of the specification. One more thing to settle before the order: a contained tank does not hand you its nameplate volume once thermal expansion, chemistry and density are accounted for, which the Captor double wall freeboard sizing guide works through. Check your own turnover in the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard discipline from the tank sizing guide.

The 216 inch shell, counted by weight

Four part numbers share this exact 102 by 102 by 216 inch shell and the sheet splits them by listed weight alone, two at 3,600 pounds and two at 4,300. It offers no explanation, so this page prints the rows and leaves the question with the product you are storing and how warm you run it; give us the name and the strength and we will confirm the part number before anything is quoted. For handling, the lighter listing is worth having: the empty weight is what your yard has to lift, while the load on the pad is set by the water either way. The last two rows are the alternatives in shape rather than in code. Staying on the same 102 inch square and dropping nineteen inches to 197 gets you under a low service run and costs 500 gallons. Moving to the 120 inch square gains volume at 5,500 gallons in a much shorter 172 inch package at 3,200 pounds, which is the easiest lift in the group and the largest floor footprint. Take the free floor and the clear height at the exact position with a tape before you choose, then count the truck drops you are willing to sign for each year.

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Filling through one 18 inch threaded vented manway

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway is the only opening this sheet publishes, and it sits at the top of a 216 inch column. That is where the product goes in, so the drop pipe arrangement, the hose route and the place the driver stands are designed before the tank is set rather than improvised on the first delivery.
• Access to it: a fixed ladder, a platform and a fall protection arrangement belong in the installation drawing. Eighteen feet is not a step ladder job, and a fill point nobody can reach safely is a fill point that gets done badly.
• The vent: listed as part of the manway, and a warm headspace moves more air for the same change in level. Keep the path clear, inspect it whenever the manway is open, and never blank or restrict it.
• The outlet field: it reads "1 Manway / Lid" and the inlet field is empty. That is the name of an opening, not a pipe size, so no outlet dimension, thread, bulkhead, flange or valve is claimed here. Tell us the duty, the working temperature and the line size and we will confirm what this part number carries.
• Warm service at the fittings: with the sheet at 140 F / 60 C, seals, gasket material, valve seats and any flexible connection are chosen against temperature as well as chemistry. A warm-service weep almost always starts at a fitting rather than at the wall.
• Level: black wall, no visual level. Set the stop level, mark it, and protect it with a low level cut-out chosen alongside the pump.
• Structure: the sheet lists 8 lifting lugs, ladder lugs and 4 flange lines.
• The space between the walls: no monitoring port, gauge or alarm is published on this sheet, so that arrangement is specified separately and inspected to a written schedule.
• Limits: 140 F / 60 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.5, and a 3 Year Warranty.

Name the product and its working temperature at order time, because every wetted part is chosen against both, and a fitting picked from a catalogue default is the one route out of a vessel that otherwise has two walls.

Warm wash water and dilute solution between deliveries

This listing goes where the product is close to water but does not stay cold: clean-in-place and wash-down supply in food, beverage and dairy plants, heated rinse water on process lines, boiler and cooling tower make-up, dilute treatment solution at municipal water and wastewater works, laundry and industrial wash operations, vehicle and fleet wash installations, and process water holding in a bay that runs hot through the summer. In all of them the containment is bought for the surface underneath, and what it returns is evidence: a record that the first wall has not leaked, kept from week one with dates against it. Warm duty is also what makes the top of the wall the part to watch, because a polyethylene wall works hardest at the vapour line rather than under the liquid, which the wall thickness at the vapour saturated headspace guide explains, and it is why an inspection done from the liquid side misses what matters. Where the enquiry behind a tank this size is really private fire water storage rather than process supply, that duty is sized by different rules and the fire water reservoir design guide for rural and remote sites is where it starts; nothing on this page is a claim about that use.

Lincoln, Nebraska to your gate, thirty-six hundred pounds empty

One plant is named and no ship-from state field is published, so Lincoln, Nebraska is the whole of what this sheet says about origin. The shipping load is 102 by 102 by 216 inches at 3,600 pounds, LTL at class 250 with no NMFC number. No crane specification, rigging plan, permit or escort requirement appears on this sheet, so none is stated here; the sheet does list 8 lifting lugs, and beyond that the lift is planned with the equipment you can actually source. Walk the route with a tape before the truck is booked, because eighteen feet of shipment finds the things nobody remembers: the door head, the gate frame, the overhead service, the turning room at the far end. Take it under the base or from the published lugs, never by the manway, and never drag it on the shell. Set it on the finished, cured, level surface in its final position before a single pipe is connected, prove it plumb in two directions while it is empty, then fill it with clean water and hold that 41,700 pound load while you read the manway seal, the base all the way round and the pad beneath it. Drain it, let it dry, open the space between the walls, look in good light and write the date on the shell with the part number beside it. Then agree the receiving procedure in writing before the first bulk drop, because the fill is the one operation where a tall tank, a warm product and a driver in a hurry all meet at the same opening. Save the pallet; a tank that ever has to move again is easier to move on it.