Snyder Industries 6500 Gallon ASTM XLPE Double Wall Tank

What ten feet across means to a carrier

Begin with the lane, because on a tank this size the freight decision is made before the engineering one. Lincoln, Nebraska is the only plant on this sheet and Nebraska the only ship-from state, so the plains and the Midwest are a short run and anything further is a scheduled oversize movement. The shell is 120 inches across and 199 inches long on the trailer at 5,300 pounds, which is ten feet of width: wide enough to need planning on every mile of the route, light enough that the weight is rarely what stops it. That asymmetry is the useful thing to know about this listing. Your constraint is the width and the height of the load, not the tonnage, so the questions to ask early are the gate, the turning circle, the overhead lines on the approach and whether there is a standing position for a lift at the far end. The sheet publishes no crane capacity, no rigging arrangement, no permit and no escort detail, so none is stated here; all of that is agreed with your carrier and your rigger against the published dimensions and weight. Price the lane to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator before you finalise the capacity, because on a mid-size vessel the difference between two capacity steps is often smaller than the difference between two lanes, and the listed price is before freight. Then the reason to buy this part number rather than the one beside it. It is the 1.9 rating: this sheet gives 102,999 pounds of max contents where its twin on the identical shell gives a lower figure against a lower rating on its own sheet. If your product is meaningfully heavier than water, that is the number that decides it, and it costs you 5,300 pounds of shipping weight rather than the twin's lighter figure. The second wall is moulded in, so what you prepare is a pad rather than a bund, level and bearing evenly across the whole 120 inch base and cured before the truck is booked. No monitoring port, gauge or alarm for the space between the walls is published on this sheet, so that arrangement is specified separately. Size the volume with the tank sizing calculator and the tank sizing guide.

Two part numbers, one name, two weights

Two of the rows above carry exactly the same product name as this tank, and the sheet still lists them at different empty weights: 5,300 pounds here and 4,000 pounds for the other. What it does mean in practice is that name is not enough on this family, and the part number is. Order by the number on your drawing, your spares list or your existing installation, and we will confirm the published figures against it before anything ships. The honest case for this listing is the specific gravity rating of 1.9 and the 102,999 pound max contents figure behind it. That is the highest published on this shell, and it is what you are paying the extra shipping weight for. If your liquid is close to the density of water, the lighter listing beside it is the sensible buy and you keep the difference on the freight. The rows outside the shell are the real sizing conversation. The 5,500 gallon on the same 120 inch plan is 172 inches tall at 3,200 pounds, so the step down costs a little over two feet of height and nothing on the floor. The 8,700 gallon moves to a 142 inch plan at 197 inches and 5,000 pounds, which is a wider load on the truck but a shorter one. Decide which of width and height your site is short of before you decide the gallons.

Comparing across brands too? Call 866-418-1777; we carry Norwesco, Snyder, Chem-Tainer, Enduraplas and Bushman and will say which one fits, or price the freight first.

The eighteen inch fill opening

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway is the only opening this sheet publishes, and it is where the delivery goes in. Eighteen inches takes a fill coupling and a drop pipe with room left to work a lance and to get a real look at the wall, which is the reason it is also the inspection route.
• The vent: the manway is listed as vented. At 6,500 gallons the air has to move at the same rate the liquid does during a fill and during a hard pump-down, so keep the path clear, check it whenever the manway is open, and never blank or restrict it.
• Reaching it: the manway is at 199 inches, over sixteen feet up. Fixed access, a fall protection arrangement and a fill connection brought down to ground level belong on the installation drawing rather than being improvised on the first drop.
• The outlet field: it reads "1 Manway / Lid" and nothing else, with the inlet field blank. That is the name of an opening and not a pipe size, so no outlet dimension, thread, bulkhead, flange or valve is claimed here. Give us the line size, the valve and the pump and we will confirm what this part number carries.
• Structure: the sheet lists eight lifting lugs, ladder lugs and two flange lines, with no position, rating or size published for any of them.
• 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 at order time. Every wetted part on a contained vessel is selected against the chemistry, and the fitting is the single route a release can take out of a tank that otherwise has two walls.

Heavy liquor storage at mid plant scale

The 1.9 rating on this sheet is what puts the part number on a shortlist, and the duties follow the density: concentrated treatment chemicals at water and wastewater works, mineral processing and mining reagent storage, metal finishing and pickling liquor at plant scale, pulp and paper process chemistry, and plating shops holding a working stock rather than a drum inventory. It is the size a site reaches when totes have become a handling problem and a full bulk vessel is more than the turnover justifies. Three references are worth the time before you 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. Where somebody asks how the space between two walls is tested, the cathodic disbondment testing guide for double wall interstitial spaces sets out the methodology and where the polyethylene boundary lies. Where the duty is private fire water rather than chemical feed, take it to the fire water reservoir design guide for rural and remote sites. And the usable volume of a contained tank is not the nameplate number, which the Captor double wall freeboard sizing guide works out properly.

Five thousand three hundred pounds onto a prepared pad

The shipping size is given as 120 by 120 by 199 inches at 5,300 pounds, LTL at class 250 with no NMFC number listed, out of Lincoln. Have the pad cured and level before the truck is booked, because a vessel standing in the yard waiting for concrete is a vessel nobody is watching. Lift under the base by the arrangement your rigger specifies and never by the manway. Set it plumb, check it in two directions, and confirm the whole 120 inch footprint is bearing evenly with nothing packed under one edge to make it sit flat. Fill it with clean water, hold that 54,210 pound load, and read the manway seal, the base line and the pad edge in good light while it is loaded. Drain it, let it dry, open the space between the walls, look into it and write the date and the part number on the shell. Then mark the outside at your working full level and at your stop level while the water is still in it, because that mark is the level reference every operator will use afterwards. Agree who signs the first chemical fill before the driver arrives, not while he is waiting. Write the fill date on the manway with a paint marker; it answers the first question anyone asks about a tank.