If your industrial company produces hazardous runoff from operating equipment, you need to treat the wastewater before dumping it into the sewer or wastewater stream. Depending on your industry, you may need to have a very detailed process that meets the highest standards. Each state and city might have their own standards and regulations you’ll need to meet, or you might be under federal regulations.
But your process is only as good as your chemical storage solution.
If your chemical tanks aren’t designed properly, you could be dealing with a dangerous system failure that shuts down your industrial wastewater treatment facility.
Chemicals are essential in treating wastewater. In fact, wastewater treatment requires aggressive chemicals to treat the water. It’s always important to properly and safely store the chemicals that are used in the treatment process.
All too often, facility planners make late-game decisions about chemical storage solutions. As a result, they spec out a tank that’s designed to fit the space, rather than designing a tank for their particular needs and designing a space to accommodate the storage system’s requirements. The result is a less-than-ideal solution that negatively impacts the operations of the industrial wastewater treatment facility.
A chemical tank is one of the most important systems in industrial wastewater treatment, because if the tank fails, the entire treatment system could shut down.
Poly Processing has been in the industrial wastewater treatment business for over 50 years. We provide tank solutions for industries as diverse as:
Our cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) tanks have earned a reputation for safely treating the most hazardous chemicals used in wastewater treatment. Poly tanks are storing chemicals like these:
Let’s take a brief look at how these chemicals are used in the wastewater treatment process.
Reliable chemical storage depends on several factors — your industry, the size of your business, and federal, state and local regulations. Poly Processing Company can provide custom chemical storage solutions to fit your wastewater treatment needs.
Industrial wastewater treatment chemicals require a strong, safe storage solution to combat their corrosive properties — but not all tanks are created equal.
Fiberglass storage tanks are constructed of wound strips that overlap or a sprayed on fiberglass material, which means they can contain many seams. Each seam can be a weak point that provides another opportunity for a leak or tank failure. Fiberglass is also expensive, and the additional corrosion barriers for aggressive chemicals only raises the costs even more. If you purchase a fiberglass tank, be prepared for continual inspection and maintenance.
Because of the drawbacks of fiberglass tanks, many industrial treatment facilities use linear polyethylene tanks instead. But while linear polyethylene is less expensive than fiberglass, it’s less robust than cross-linked polyethylene and gives the end user less useful life.
Cross-linked polyethylene tanks are cost-effective, resistant to aggressive chemicals, and very robust. Our tanks have a seamless one-piece molded construction, so there are no seams for leaks to develop.