3000 Gallon 30 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank in White

What the lighter rating covers at three thousand gallons

One 3,000 gallon shell, 90 inches across and 144 inches tall, carries several listings on this sheet, and the sheet separates them by empty weight and by the specific gravity rating that goes with it. This is the 500 pound row at 1.5. It allows 37,530 pounds of contents against 25,020 pounds of water in the same 3,000 gallons, which is the right pairing for water, treated water, rinse water and the broad run of process liquid at or under the weight of water. That is most large-volume cone bottom duty, and it is why this row is the one most buyers at this capacity should be looking at. A heavier listing exists on the same shell at 670 pounds for genuinely dense product, and the sheet explains the weight difference no further than the figure itself, so neither does this page. Find what your liquid weighs per gallon and match it to a rating: above your duty you pay for wall you will never load, below it you are not saving anything at all. The colour field reads White, which on a vessel this size is worth more than it sounds. Twelve feet of translucent shell gives an operator a rough level from the floor in daylight, and at 3,000 gallons knowing roughly where you are without climbing is a daily saving. What it costs you is light control, so product that should be kept dark belongs in one of the darker listings instead. Then the support, which on a shell this tall is the first thing to settle and the last thing people cost. A cone bottom tank has no flat floor and cannot stand on its own bottom. This sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern, so the support is a separate item with its own drawing, price and lead time, and no stand height, rated load or material is stated here. It has to carry 500 pounds of empty tank, 25,020 pounds of water and up to 37,530 pounds at the rating, arriving through a few feet inside a 90 inch circle with 144 inches of shell above them. Measure the roof, the door and the route in before the part number is fixed. Fix the volume with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide first.

A three thousand gallon shell listed three ways, plus the steps either side

Three rows in this table hold 3,000 gallons at 500 pounds and a fourth holds the same volume at 670 pounds, all on one shell at 90 inches across and 144 inches tall. The shape does not move across any of them, so the decision inside the group is the rating and nothing else. The two rows at the bottom are where the geometry changes and they are worth reading together, because they are opposite answers to the same problem. The 2,600 gallon listing stands at 139 inches on the same circle, so stepping down to it gives up real volume for almost no headroom back, which is rarely the trade anyone wants. The 3,600 gallon listing solves a low roof properly: 102 inches across and 125 inches tall, a good deal shorter than this tank but on a wider circle, and at 1,090 pounds it is far heavier empty than anything else in the table, which changes the lift, the pad and the freight together. So the useful question is not how many gallons, it is which dimension your building is short of. If it is height, the wide shell is the answer even though it costs more to handle; if it is floor, this narrow column is. For the whole selection at this capacity, our complete buyer's guide to a three thousand gallon cone bottom tank with a shallower bottom is the long read, and where the bottom angle rather than the volume is still open, the cone angle selection guide compares the shallow, middle and steep options against how real product drains.

Ready to choose a row? Add the 3000 gallon tank to your cart above with freight quoted to your ZIP, or 866-418-1777 will confirm it against the site first.

The lid, the vent, and the published service limit

• The vent and the lid arrive together: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, with the lid size field also reading 18 inches, and the vent part of it rather than a separate specification. That air path is what protects the wall while a pump draws 3,000 gallons down, and a tall shell makes the job harder rather than easier. Keep it clear, check it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank, paint or tape it.
• Reaching it: 144 inches of shell plus whatever stand carries the tank puts the lid twelve feet up before the support is counted. This sheet counts no ladder lugs and no structural attachments, so the access belongs to the structure, and the fill line belongs at a coupling at working level rather than at the top.
• The service limit: 100 F / 37 C is published on this sheet. It is the figure a hot rinse, a heated make-up line or a full vessel in summer sun will test first, so send us the fill temperature with the product name.
• The outlet: no outlet field and no inlet field is published on this sheet, so no discharge size, thread, bulkhead or valve is stated. Tell us the line size you need to land, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before it ships.
• Under the cone: 30 Degree is the maker's name word and no cone angle field is published, so nothing measured is claimed. Everything hung at the low point holds up the column above it, up to 37,530 pounds at the rating, so put the valve, any reducer and the first pipe run on steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint.
• Blank on this sheet: a warranty term, an NMFC number, a lug count, a flange count and any stand detail. None is claimed. Published: a rating of 1.5, 25,020 pounds of water at 3,000 gallons, 37,530 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

On a twelve foot shell the ladder and the lid are the two things people improvise once and then live with for a decade, so draw them properly with the support rather than after the tank is standing.

Full bulk drops that still have to drain clean

Three thousand gallons is a working bulk number: it takes a full drop without splitting it across vessels, and the cone means the vessel gives all of it back at the end of the run. Polymer and coagulant make-up at a water or wastewater works, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer through a season, batch preparation and intermediate holding in manufacturing, food and beverage duty where the tank is washed between products, wash and rinse systems emptied between runs, recovered process water waiting on a decision, and buffer volume between two stages running at different rates. The changeover is the common thread and it is where the shape earns its price, because a product change becomes a rinse rather than a recovery job and nobody is clearing the last layer off a floor with a pump. The 1.5 rating is the honest match for that work, since almost all of it weighs what water weighs or less, and 37,530 pounds of max contents against 25,020 pounds of water leaves genuine margin without paying for capability you cannot use. The limits belong beside the benefits. The published service limit is 100 F / 37 C, which a hot wash cycle will find. Daylight reaches the contents through a translucent wall. And twelve feet of liquid on a 90 inch circle stratifies more readily than a wide shallow vessel does, so if your blend wants to separate, specify the draw point and the mixing arrangement with the tank rather than a season later. Name the liquid when you enquire and start in our chemical compatibility reference; the gasket and valve choice follows the chemistry, not the shell.

Chemicals this resin is rated for, with the fitting and gasket to order

These are the chemicals listed for this tank at the concentrations shown. Each links to the full compatibility page; confirm your exact concentration and temperature there or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic Acid at 60%
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50%
• Calcium Chloride at 40%
• DEF at 32.5%
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20%
• Magnesium Chloride at 30%
• Sodium Carbonate at 30%
• Urea Solution at 50%, and Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM. A useful simplification from the data: all nine of these run on EPDM gaskets - the fitting materia
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrochloric Acid (Viton gaskets)
• Hydrofluoric Acid
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid
• Hydrogen Peroxide
• Peracetic Acid (316SS, Aflas)
• Phosphoric Acid
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol
• Sodium Bisulfate
• Sodium Bisulfite
• Sodium Hypochlorite (Viton)
• Sodium Thiosulfate
• Sulfuric Acid (CPVC, Viton), and
• Zinc Orthophosphate. The biggest mistake on a chemical cone tank is matching the chemical to the geometry while ignoring the SG rating; the full

Ninety inches square, a hundred and forty-four inches tall

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Nebraska is the state the sheet gives for shipping, so the Midwest and the plains are the short lanes and both coasts are the long ones. The freight class reads 500 beside an OVS ship mode and no NMFC number is published. The package measures 90 inches by 90 inches by 144 inches at 500 pounds, twelve feet of envelope around a light load, which is the shape that prices on the trailer space it occupies rather than on the scale ticket. Price the lane to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator before you commit; the listed price is before freight. It travels lying down and is stood up at your site, and twelve feet of tank needs clear ground and an agreed machine for that operation rather than a decision taken at the kerb. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is described here; agree the offload equipment and the delivery window with us before the truck is booked. Have the support set, levelled and anchored first, because there is nowhere to park a cone bottom tank while concrete cures. No lifting lugs are counted on this sheet, so sling under the body and never off the manway, and restrain the shell as soon as it is vertical. Commission with clean water rather than product: hold the 25,020 pound water load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge in that order, and leave it standing full overnight. Walk the base once more after the first hard rain and again after the first hard freeze, because ground that has moved shows it at the pad edge long before anything shows on the tank. Leave room to walk all the way around it; the side of the tank nobody can see is the side that leaks.