Snyder Industries 550 Gallon Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

The chemical station that moves

A plant with several bays and one chemical delivery keeps a tank on a pallet and moves it to the work; a black one can wait in the yard between jobs without going chalky or growing green. Black runs warmer in the sun than white, which argues for shade if the liquid must stay cool, and it hides the level, so a sight tube off the outlet goes on before the tank goes anywhere. The 1.9 wall covers what two totes carry. Full at the rating it puts 8,715 pounds on a 48 inch circle, which is a heavy load per square foot, so it is moved empty and stands full on a level slab per the concrete pad sizing guide, inside a berm when the liquid is regulated, strapped at the top third, because six feet of empty polyethylene on a four foot base goes over in a gust or a bump from the forklift that brought it. The tank sizing calculator turns feed rate and delivery interval into a volume, and the tank sizing guide covers the reserve to keep the pump wet between deliveries.

The 48 inch 550 in black and white, and the low ones

The 1800400C26 is this tank in white for indoors, where the level shows through the wall; the 1800000C34 and N51 are the other black tanks in this shell and the N48 the other chemical grade. The 8060000C26 lays the same 550 gallons down to 46 inches on a 64 inch base for a site with floor and no height. The 5780100N42 is the 500 gallon cross-linked tank for oxidizers, and the 1700200N42 the 710 in that resin.

Which wall for your chemical? Call 866-418-1777 with the name and the concentration and we will pick the row.

Outlet, manway, and the disconnect

• Outlet: 2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting, at the base; a valve at the tank and a camlock or a union after it, so the line comes off for a move, with a flexible connector to hard pipe when it stands.
• Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway, 75 inches up, reached from a step; fill from a tote through a dip tube, and vent outside on anything that fumes.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C.

Six feet of liquid above the outlet keeps a pump's suction flooded to the last inches; mount the pump below the outlet so it primes by gravity, and put a low-level float on it. A black wall hides the level, so the sight tube or the sender is the gauge. Keep the manway closed against rain and vapor loss, label the one chemical the tank holds, and never move it full; empty it into the process first. Where it freezes, drain the outlet valve and the first pipe run; the body takes ice from the top down without harm.

Yards and bays

A truck wash's chemical supply moved between bays, a plating line's makeup tank staged in the yard, the acid supply at a cooling tower on an open pad, a coagulant tank at a package plant with no building, and a spray-mix supply on a farm. If the liquid warrants a second wall, the Captor double wall freeboard guide explains what a contained tank gives up in usable volume at this size. Not a fire tank; the fire-water reservoir design guide works in thousands of gallons and a water wall, and where a reuse system doses treatment chemical between storage stages, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a tank this size sits.

Freight from Chowchilla, on its pallet

The 1800400C34 ships from Chowchilla, California as LTL freight at class 300; the freight cost estimator quotes it to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Two people stand 110 pounds, or a forklift moves it on the pallet it arrives on; at 48 inches across it goes through a double door upright. Fill it with water to the manway once and look at the outlet fitting for a weep, then drain and dry before the chemical goes in. Keep the pallet under it for good. Walk the base after the first hard rain; a pad that shifts shows it at the edge first.