The risk to your employees and the environment is drastically reduced, as well. You aren’t likely to lose all of your stored chemical if a leak develops, and the cost of cleanup and replacement is significantly less expensive. On the other hand, cross-linked polyethylene might develop a small pinhole or tear that pulls the elasticity, but you’ll never have a catastrophic failure. All of the stored product is lost, and the cleanup is considerable. When linear polyethylene fails, it fails catastrophically, because the linear polymer chains “unzip.” The entire tank comes undone, and a small leak becomes a massive chemical spill. The implications of these differences are most obvious when testing the two plastics.
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