Snyder Industries 60 Gallon HDLPE Chemical Feed Station Tank with Stand in White

One Arkansas plant, one LTL lane, 108 pounds on a pallet

Everything about receiving this station is decided at Marked Tree, Arkansas, where it is molded, and by the 47 by 36 by 58 inch package that leaves it at 108 pounds. That is an ordinary LTL pallet, not an oversize move: it rides with other freight, it needs no permit and no route survey, and the lane out of Arkansas is short into the Mid-South and reasonable almost everywhere else. What it does need is a door and a ceiling. Fifty-eight inches is four feet ten inches of station on top of whatever pallet it is sitting on, so the dock lip, the doorway and any low header on the route to the room want measuring before the truck is booked rather than on the day. One hundred and eight pounds is a forklift under the pallet or two people who have moved a tank before, and it is the point at which a site with no lift equipment starts to want help. Once it is inside, the stand is the reason you bought this part number instead of a lower one. It carries the vessel up so a metering pump can sit under the draw-off and stay flooded, so a carboy fits underneath for a decant, and so the underside of the tank is visible on a walk-past instead of being found wet a week late. The floor under the frame has to be flat, level and continuous, carrying 500 pounds of water at full and 951 pounds at the sheet's rating without a rock under one foot. No anchor pattern, foot detail or frame rating is published on this sheet, so this page prints none; where the room is seismic or the deck is not ground-bearing concrete, ask us to confirm that detail for the part number before the order. Check the volume first regardless: 60 gallons against your dosing rate and delivery interval in the tank sizing calculator, with the reserve and the thermal freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 58 inch parts, and the one listed at 42

This is the 45 part number with the stand, and the reason to take it is what goes underneath the tank. Set against SII-5680023CF45, the difference the sheet publishes is plain: that one is listed at 42 inches and 79 pounds with a containment basin under the vessel, this one at 58 inches and 108 pounds on a frame, so the basin version buys you a low lid and an easy lift while this one buys you space for a pump on a flooded suction. Against SII-5680024CFWS42 the sheet gives the same 47 by 36 by 58 inches and the same 108 pounds; the published difference between them is the part number and the material field, cross-linked polyethylene on the 42 and high density linear polyethylene here, and each carries its own sheet's rating. SII-5680023CF42 is listed at 58 inches and 108 pounds as well, which the sheet states and does not explain; we print it as given and claim nothing about what is or is not under that vessel. If 60 gallons turns out to be a delivery too often, the 90 gallon SII-5690103CF42 is the next step at 56 by 43 inches and 41 inches tall, and the 50 gallon operator tank in the last row is a portable spray unit from another family with no dosing duty claimed for it here.

Need a different size? Every tank in the table is in stock programs; ask for a quote on the one that fits, or call 866-418-1777.

A 6 inch opening at 58 inches, and the fill line that has to reach it

• The opening, and where it now sits: a 6 inch lid at 58 inches is chest height or a little above for most operators, which is fine for a glance and awkward for a hose held by hand. Bring the fill line to a coupling at working level and let the pipe do the lifting, rather than someone standing on something to reach the rim.
• What 6 inches allows: a fill, a vent path, a level device and a sample. It is not an opening you clean through with an arm and a brush, so plan the wash-out routine around it before the first product goes in.
• The draw-off: no outlet size and no inlet size are published on this sheet, so none is printed. Tell us the chemical and the flow rate when you order and we confirm the fitting, gasket and valve against Snyder's drawing for this part number before it ships.
• The pump you raised the tank for: set it below the draw-off on its own base with a short falling run into the suction, so the standing column keeps it flooded through the batch, and add a low level float or probe that stops it with liquid still over the fitting. Carry the valve on its own bracket and put a flexible connector in the first joint.
• Plan the top before drilling it: the fill, the vent, the level device and any return line will compete for the life of the station if the layout is improvised. The top fitting placement guide sets out the order to do it in.

Getting the level out of the lid and onto a display is the single change that makes a raised station pleasant to run, because nobody should be opening a chemical vessel at chest height to answer a question a gauge answers from across the room; the level gauge selection guide compares what works in chemical service. Mark the vessel and its lines so that anybody walking past knows what is in it and what it feeds, to the standard in the tank label and signage guide. The rating on this sheet is a specific gravity of 1.9 and the limit is 120 F / 48 C.

Where a 60 gallon day tank beats a drum pump

The duty is small, continuous dosing with a pump that is not allowed to stall: hypochlorite, caustic, acid or coagulant at a small water or wastewater plant; a sanitiser day tank on a food, beverage or dairy line; cooling tower treatment; detergent or acid at a wash or a laundry; a dosing point in a plating or finishing shop. A drum with a pump in the bung does the same job badly, because the suction lifts, the drum is opaque, the level is a guess and every change of drum is a chance to connect the wrong one. A day tank on a stand fixes all four. What it does not fix is knowing the strength of what is in there, which is a sampling question rather than a tank question; the chemical sampling protocol article is the discipline to put beside it.

Rated chemistries for this tank

The manufacturer lists these liquids for this resin at the concentrations noted, with the fitting and gasket material to specify. Check the concentration and temperature you actually run on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Sodium Hypochlorite (
• Hydrochloric Acid (37%, PVC, Viton)
• Sulfuric Acid (98%, CPVC, Viton)
• Phosphoric Acid (85%, PVC, Viton)
• Hydrogen Peroxide (50%, PVC, Viton)
• Ferric Chloride (50%, PVC, EPDM)
• Hydrofluoric Acid (48%, PP/PVC, Viton)
• Potassium Hydroxide (saturated, PVC, EPDM)
• Ethylene Glycol (100%, PVC, EPDM)
• Polyaluminum Chloride (PVC, EPDM), and
• Sodium Bisulfite (PVC/PP, EPDM). Lower-SG dilutions such as
• Acetic Acid (60%)
• Aluminum Sulfate (50%)
• Calcium Chloride (40%), and
• Sodium Carbonate (30%) are also cleared here.
• Ozonated water (up to 10 PPM, PVC, EPDM) is compatible as well.
• Peracetic Acid (30%) requires 316SS fittings with an
• DEF (32.5%) and
• Urea Solution (50%) both call for
• Zinc Orthophosphate and
• Propylene Glycol likewise list 316SS options. Cross-check your full chemistry against the

Shipping at 58 inches: the door, the aisle and the estimator

Freight class is given on the sheet as LTL under NMFC 156600-02, shipping from Arkansas, shipping at 47 by 36 by 58 inches. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Measure the route before the truck is booked: four feet ten inches plus the pallet has to clear the dock canopy, the doorway and any header between the door and the room, and a station that has to be laid down and stood up again in a corridor is a station somebody will damage. Take the 108 pounds off with the lift under the frame, never by the lid and never by the vessel wall. Stand it in its final position on level floor, water-fill it once, hold it, and read the floor under every foot, the lid seal and each joint before the chemical arrives; drain it dry afterwards. Go back a week after the first real delivery and check the feet and the joints again, because that is when the load has actually been on them. Keep the first delivery's paperwork with the tank; strength and date on day one is the baseline for every batch after.