Snyder Industries 5500 Gallon ASTM XLPE Double Wall Tank

Freight planning for a shorter column

Lincoln, Nebraska is the only plant on this sheet and Nebraska the only ship-from state, so every one of these tanks starts in the same yard and the lane to your site is the first cost to price. This listing is 120 inches across and 172 inches tall at 3,800 pounds, and that height is the interesting number. Ten feet of width makes it a wide load wherever it goes, but a shorter column is easier to handle at both ends: less to stand up, less to brace on the trailer, less reach on the lift, and fewer arguments about overhead clearance on the approach. Against the 6,500 gallon on the same 120 inch plan, this tank gives up a little over two feet of height and about a thousand gallons, and it keeps the whole footprint. Against the 5,000 gallon on a 102 inch plan at 216 inches, it goes the other way entirely: wider on the ground, much shorter in the air. That is the trade to make consciously, because on this family the gallons move less than the proportions do. Price both lanes to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator before you fix the capacity; the listed price is before freight. The sheet publishes no crane capacity, no rigging arrangement, no permit and no escort detail, so none is stated here and all of it is agreed with your carrier and your rigger against the published dimensions and the 3,800 pound empty weight. What you buy this part number for rather than its twin is on the sheet: a specific gravity rating of 1.9 with 87,153 pounds of max contents, where the lighter listing on the identical shell publishes a lower rating and a smaller figure on its own sheet. If your liquid is heavier than water, that is the whole argument, and it costs 3,800 pounds on the truck instead of the twin's lighter weight. The ground under it is a designed slab, level and bearing evenly across the entire 120 inch base; the second wall is moulded in, so no bund is poured around it, and no monitoring port, gauge or alarm for the space between the walls is published on this sheet. Size the volume with the tank sizing calculator and the tank sizing guide.

The heavier of the two five thousand five hundreds

Four part numbers share this 120 by 120 by 172 inch moulding and the sheet splits them into two weights, 3,800 pounds and 3,200 pounds, with the same product name appearing at both. We print the rows as given and reconcile nothing, because no sheet explains the pattern. Order by part number on this family; the name will not distinguish them. This listing is the heavier one in natural white, and the reason to take it is the 1.9 rating and the 87,153 pound max contents figure that follows from it. That is the number to match against your product's density, and it is the one thing on this shell that is not available at the lighter weight. Natural white is the second consideration and it is a working one: the only opening on this tank is at 172 inches, so a lighter wall is often the only level reference an operator gets from the ground, while the two black listings keep daylight off the contents instead. The rows outside the shell are a shape decision rather than a capacity one. The 5,000 gallon on a 102 inch plan at 216 inches trades floor for height, which suits a narrow plant room and rules itself out under a low roof. The 6,500 gallon keeps this footprint and adds height at 199 inches and 5,300 pounds. Choose on the dimension your building is short of, then confirm the rating against the liquid.

Neighboring size a better fit? Every row links to its own page; freight to your ZIP is quoted on each, or call 866-418-1777.

The lid is the whole of the top

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, and the sheet publishes no other opening at all. It takes the delivery, it is how the tank is inspected, and it is how the tank is cleaned, so everything you want on top of the vessel shares it.
• The vent: it is listed as vented. On 5,500 gallons the air moves as fast as the liquid during a fill or a hard pump-down, so keep the path clear, look at it whenever the manway is open, and never blank it.
• Reaching it: the opening is at 172 inches, over fourteen feet. That is lower than most of this family and it still needs designed access, fall protection and a fill connection brought to ground level.
• The outlet field: it reads "1 Manway / Lid" with the inlet field blank. That names an opening and not a pipe size, so no outlet dimension, thread, bulkhead, flange or valve is published on this sheet or claimed here. Give us the duty, the line size and the pump and we will confirm what this part number carries.
• Structure: the sheet lists ladder lugs and one flange line. It publishes no lifting lug count on this part number, so none is stated, and no position, rating or size is given for what it does list.
• The space between the walls: no monitoring port, gauge or alarm is published on this sheet.
• Limits: 140 F / 60 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.9, and a 3 Year Warranty.

Name the product and its strength when you order. On a contained tank the fitting is the one part of the system a second wall does nothing for, and it is where a release starts.

Reagent storage on a short column

Five thousand five hundred contained gallons in a vessel only fourteen feet tall fits the plants that want bulk quantity under an ordinary roof: water and wastewater treatment chemical feed, cooling tower and boiler conditioning, food, beverage and dairy sanitation make-up, laundry and vehicle wash supply at volume, plating and finishing shops holding a working stock, and agricultural chemical storage on a working yard. The 1.9 rating on this sheet keeps denser liquors in scope, and the 140 F / 60 C limit keeps warm feed loops in scope, which together is why this part number rather than the lighter twin ends up on a lot of drawings. Two references earn their place before the order. The hardest service a polyethylene wall sees is at the vapour line rather than under the liquid, which the wall thickness at the vapour saturated headspace guide works through in detail. The usable volume of a contained tank is not its nameplate figure, which the Captor double wall freeboard sizing guide sets out on thermal expansion, chemistry and density. And where the duty is private fire water rather than chemical feed, start with the fire water reservoir design guide for rural and remote sites; nothing on this page is a claim about that duty.

Three thousand eight hundred pounds and a hundred and seventy-two inch shipment

Shipping is LTL at class 250 with no NMFC number listed, out of Lincoln, and the shipping size is given as 120 by 120 by 172 inches at 3,800 pounds. Nothing about the rigging is published on this sheet, so agree it with your carrier and rigger against those figures rather than against anything on this page. Have the slab poured, cured and level before the vessel is scheduled, with the full 120 inch base supported and nothing shimmed under one edge. Lift by the arrangement your rigger specifies, never by the manway, and keep the tank upright through the yard. Set it plumb, check it in two directions, then fill it with clean water and hold the 45,870 pound load while you read the manway seal, the base line and the pad edge in good light. Drain, dry, open the space between the walls, look into it and write the date and the part number on the shell in paint marker. Book the next inspection into the maintenance system on the day you commission it; a second wall is only worth what you can prove about it, and proof is a dated record rather than a memory. Once it is full and holding, leave it alone for a day before the plumbing goes on; a settled tank is a quiet one.