Snyder Industries 60 Gallon HDLPE Chemical Feed Station Tank with Containment Basin

Marked Tree to your dock: the lightest 60 in the group

Freight is the first thing to know about a small feed station, because on an item this size the lane usually costs more than the difference between two part numbers. This one is molded at Marked Tree, Arkansas, which puts the short lane into Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri and the rest of the Mid-South, and it shipments at 47 by 36 by 42 inches weighing 79 pounds. That combination is about as easy as a chemical vessel gets to receive: a pallet a hand truck can take, a package that goes through a standard doorway, and a weight two people can set down without a machine. It is the version to buy when the receiving end is a small plant room, a pump house or a site with no forklift, because the tank that arrives is the tank that gets installed rather than the one that sits on the dock waiting for equipment. Where it lands matters as much as how it arrives. The basin is moulded under the vessel, so the tank and its secondary containment are one piece on one 47 by 36 inch rectangle of floor, and that floor has to be flat, level and continuous under the whole base; a moulded floor bears on the surface it touches and on nothing else. At 42 inches the lid sits at waist height, so an operator can see into it, sample from it and clean it without a step, which is the practical difference between this and a drum on a pallet. Above the base is 500 pounds of liquid full of water and 951 pounds at the sheet's own rating, worth checking against an old slab or a raised deck before delivery day. Run your dosing rate and delivery interval against 60 gallons in the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard a warming liquid needs from the tank sizing guide.

One 47 by 36 inch plan, one part at 42 inches and three at 58

Read the height column and the purchase decides itself. Three of the four 60 gallon parts are listed at 58 inches and 108 pounds; this one is listed at 42 inches and 79 pounds, which makes it the one to take where the ceiling, the shelf above, the header or the existing fill point rules out a taller vessel, and where the person receiving it has no lift. Twenty-nine fewer pounds is not a detail on a site where a tank is carried through a door by hand. What you give up is height, and height is what puts a pump under the draw-off, so if a metering pump has to run on a flooded suction the stand parts are the honest answer and this one is not. Against SII-5680023CF42, the other tank-only part number, the sheet lists a different height and a different weight and explains nothing further; both figures are its own and we print what it says rather than inventing a reason. The 90 gallon SII-5690103CF42 is the step up for a plant that would rather stretch the interval between deliveries than save floor, at 56 by 43 inches and 41 inches tall. The 50 gallon operator tank at the foot of the table is a portable spray unit from a different family, listed here because it appears on this sheet; it is not a feed station and no dosing duty is claimed for it.

Still deciding between these? Freight to your ZIP often settles it; the wider tanks ship differently. Or call 866-418-1777 and we will walk the table with you.

Filling through a 6 inch lid at waist height

• The opening: a 6 inch lid is what this sheet gives you, and at 42 inches it is at waist height, which is the best filling position in the 60 gallon group. Six inches is a hose fill and a sample port rather than a hatch you get an arm and a brush through, so decide how the vessel gets washed out between products before the first delivery, not after one.
• Venting: keep the lid's vent path clear at all times, and never let a pump draw against a closed vent. A polyethylene wall pulled in by a blocked vent is a permanent problem on a tank that had nothing else wrong with it.
• The draw-off: this sheet publishes no outlet size and no inlet size, so we print none. Name the chemical and the flow when you order and we confirm the fitting, the gasket and the valve against Snyder's drawing for this part number, in writing, before it ships.
• Valve and pipe support: carry the valve on its own bracket from the floor or the wall, use a flexible connector at the first joint, and put a union downstream so the valve can be changed without work on the tank fitting. Seventy-nine pounds of empty tank that is 951 pounds at the rating moves on its base a little with every fill.
• Pump position: with the vessel on the floor there is no room beneath it, so the pump goes beside it with a short, falling suction run and a low level cut-out that stops it with liquid still over the draw-off.

Keep the basin empty and dry, and check it on the same round as the level reading. A containment basin holding an inch of rainwater, wash-down or spilled product has already spent the volume you were relying on, and getting whatever lands in it out and disposed of properly is part of running the station rather than an exception. Read the level from a device the operator can see from the floor: the level gauge selection guide compares the technologies for chemical service, and the tank label and signage guide covers the marking that stands up to an inspection.

Small-volume dosing where the drum has run out of room

Sixty gallons is the size a plant reaches when drums have become a handling problem but a bulk delivery is still too much: hypochlorite, caustic, acid or polymer feed at a small water or wastewater works; a sanitiser or additive day tank on a food, beverage or dairy line; cooling tower treatment on a modest system; detergent at a wash bay or a laundry; a dosing point in a plating shop or a small process building. The whole value of a day tank is that you know what is in it and at what strength, and a sample drawn carelessly produces a confident wrong number; the chemical sampling protocol article sets out how to draw one that means something, and on a vessel this size the discipline costs a minute a week.

Which liquids, at what concentration, with which fitting

Each entry pairs a rated liquid with its concentration limit and the fitting and gasket to order alongside the tank. The full rating sits on the linked page and in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic Acid (60%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Aluminum Sulfate (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Calcium Chloride (40%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• DEF (32.5%) - 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferric Chloride (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Hydrochloric Acid (37%) - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrofluoric Acid (48%) - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (26%) - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrogen Peroxide (50%) - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Peracetic Acid (30%) - 316SS fittings, Aflas gaskets
• Phosphoric Acid (85%) - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Potassium Hydroxide (Saturated) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Hypochlorite (
• Sulfuric Acid (98%) - CPVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Urea Solution (50%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ethylene Glycol (100%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferric Sulfate (60%)
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%)
• Magnesium Chloride (30%)
• Sodium Thiosulfate (40%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Bisulfate
• Sodium Bisulfite - PVC/PP fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Zinc Orthophosphate
• Propylene Glycol - PP/316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets

Seventy-nine pounds, shipping at 47 by 36 by 42

The sheet gives the freight class as LTL under NMFC 156600-02, out of Marked Tree, Arkansas, shipping at 47 by 36 by 42 inches. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator, and note that the listed price is before freight. At 79 pounds this comes off with a pallet jack or two sets of hands and goes through a standard doorway without being turned on its side, which is the reason a lot of small sites end up with this part number. Set it in its final position on level floor before anything is connected to it, then fill it with clean water once and leave it standing while you do something else, and read the basin floor, the lid seal and every joint you have made before the chemical is ordered. Drain it dry afterwards. Keep the packing slip with the part number on it somewhere better than a drawer, because the fitting and the gasket you will want in three years are ordered against that number and nothing else. Write the outlet fitting size and material on the site plan; the replacement is ordered by those two words.