Snyder Industries 5000 Gallon ASTM XLPE Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

Philippi, West Virginia is the shipping point

Buy this tank and the truck leaves Philippi, West Virginia. That single fact decides more of what it costs to get the tank onto your pad than anything on the spec line, because a 102 inch crate standing 154 inches tall is a permitted load on its own deck, and the length of the lane is what you pay for. From Philippi the short lanes run east and north: the mid-Atlantic, the Ohio valley, the Carolinas, upstate New York. A plant in that radius gets a dense-liquid tank at 1.9 without paying to drag it across the country, and that is the reason to choose the Philippi shell over a rated tank out of a western plant. Freight class 300 is what the sheet gives, and the class is set by density on the deck, not by what is in the tank when it arrives. Everything the lane saves you can be spent on the pad, which is where this tank actually lives: 41,700 pounds of water, or 79,230 pounds of contents at the rating, all of it bearing on one 102 inch circle, because a rotationally molded floor carries on its whole base and nothing else. Engineer the slab to the concrete pad sizing guide, level, in full contact, and inside a berm sized to the tank where the liquid is regulated. Then check the volume itself: run the draw rate and the delivery interval through the tank sizing calculator, and take the working reserve and the thermal freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Four walls in the 1002100 shell

Every tank in the top four rows is the same 102 x 154 inch molding; what you are buying is wall and rating, and this one is the wall that holds a 1.9 liquid. It is also the heaviest of the four at 1,050 pounds empty against 950 for the others, which is the wall you are paying for made visible on the scale. The N40 and the two C grades are the lighter walls at the same footprint, each rated as its own sheet says, and there is a lighter-rated wall in this molding that is not on this sheet, so we do not name it here. If the floor is the constraint and not the roof, the 5480000N40 puts 4,900 gallons on a 90 inch circle at 202 inches tall. If you want a hundred more gallons in a white tank, the SII-32372 stands 159 inches on the same 102 inch base at 1,301 pounds.

Want us to check the fit? Send the site dimensions to 866-418-1777 or through a written quote request and we will confirm the tank, the pad and the freight.

Twelve feet ten inches to the manway

• Access: 18 inch threaded vented manway at the top of a 154 inch shell, twelve feet ten inches off the pad. Plan the platform and the rail before the tank lands, not after; nothing about a threaded lid is easier from a ladder.
• Fill and vent: a dip tube to the floor keeps the incoming stream off the wall and out of the headspace, and the vent is sized to the delivery pump and run outdoors on anything that fumes.
• Draw-off: the sheet lists the outlet as 23 and gives no pipe size, material or thread, so the connection is specified at order against the liquid; the first valve rides on its own support off the pad and reaches the tank through a flexible connector.
• Handling and anchorage: eight lifting lugs, ladder lugs and 2 flange lines are on the sheet. Straps go under the body for the pick, never through the manway.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C, with a 3 year warranty.

Manway height is the number that sets the labor on this tank. At 154 inches the lid is above a stepladder and above most work platforms bought as an afterthought, so the access structure is part of the install, and the vent and fill lines need room above it. The reward for that height is head: nearly thirteen feet of liquid standing over the draw-off keeps a transfer pump flooded well into the last of the tank, so mount the pump below the outlet where gravity primes it and fit a low-level float so it stops before it draws air. Keep the lid closed between deliveries, put the name of the one liquid inside on the wall, and give the band of wall above the liquid line a light every time the lid comes off. Where it freezes, trace or wrap the valve and the first run of pipe; the body takes ice from the top down without complaint.

Heavy liquids on an eastern pad

The buyer for this tank is the plant whose liquid is heavier than water and whose pad is within a day of West Virginia: an acid or a concentrated salt solution at a treatment plant, a dense process liquid at a manufacturer, a heavier blend at a distributor who fills from tankers. The 1.9 rating on the sheet, and the 79,230 pounds of contents it allows, is the whole reason this wall exists, and the crosslinked resin is why it is the wall for aggressive chemistry rather than for volume alone; the crosslinking and chemistry duty guide explains where that matters and where it does not. Water sits well inside the rating, but a fire reserve is a different design problem with its own sizing discipline and freeze rules, which the fire-water reservoir design guide works through before you pick a vessel for it. What this tank is not is a bargain water tank: you would be paying for wall you never load.

The eastern lane at class 300

It ships LTL from Philippi, West Virginia at freight class 300 as the sheet lists it, crated at 102 inches by 102 inches by 154 inches, and the freight cost estimator prices that lane to your ZIP. The listed price is before freight. A crane or a forklift with long forks sets 1,050 pounds on the pad with straps under the body, using the eight lifting lugs the sheet gives for the pick and nothing else. Before the liquid, fill it with water to the manway, hold it, and walk the pad edge and the draw-off connection looking for movement or a weep; then drain and dry. Put the part number and the delivery date on the maintenance log the day the truck leaves, because the tank that has no paper is the tank nobody can answer a question about. A photo of the tank on its pad, full, on day one is worth keeping; it is the baseline every later inspection is compared against.