4100 Gallon 45 Degree Plastic Vertical Cone Bottom Tank

A cone bottom tank is a stand first and a vessel second

The site question on a cone is not the pad, it is the structure, and it is the reason this tank stands 197 inches to the top for the same 4100 gallons a straight-walled shell would hold in far less air. Sixteen feet five inches means the roof line decides everything: measure the eave, the door header, the crane hook height and the lowest overhead service on the route before ordering, and measure the ceiling of the building this will live in rather than assuming a tank bay is tall enough. Nothing in a cone install bears on the ground the way a flat-bottomed tank does. The load path runs through a stand or a skirt, and 51,291 pounds at the sheet's specific gravity rating of 1.5 arrives on the legs of that stand and then on whatever the legs are bolted to, so the footings under it are engineered for a concentrated load rather than a spread one. That makes the framework in the concrete pad sizing guide the starting point and not the whole job: the pad has to be flat, level, cured and continuous under the stand, and then the stand has to be right. Wind is worse here than on a flat tank, because an empty 1000 pound shell already has its centre of mass lifted by the stand and is 197 inches tall besides. Anchor the stand, do not band the tank to the ground through a stand, and check the anchor bolts after the first storm and the first thermal cycle. Give the cone clearance underneath for the valve, a sample point and a bucket, because a cone bottom with no working room under it turns the one advantage it has into an annoyance. Open room around the 18 inch manway at the top too, with fixed access and a rail, since at sixteen feet five inches a leaned ladder is not a method. Check the volume is the right one before you buy the height: 4100 gallons against your batch size, draw and refill in the tank sizing calculator, with the reserve and the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 90 inch cone shells: 3900 at 180 inches, 4100 at 197, 4400 at 200

Every cone on this sheet stands on the same 90 inch circle, so the family is a ladder of height and wall weight rather than a choice of footprint, and that is a useful thing to know before an install is designed around one of them. Four part numbers hold 4100 gallons at 197 inches; three of them, this one included, are listed at 1000 pounds and the heavy duty 5180000N42 at 1500 pounds. The reason to take this part number over the heavy duty twin is that it is the lighter of the two in the same silhouette: the same 197 inches, the same 90 inch base, the same 18 inch manway, and five hundred pounds less to crane into a stand, which on a cone install is lifted rather than rolled. Either side of it, the 3900 gallon 5440000N40 buys seventeen inches of headroom back for two hundred gallons at 1100 pounds, and it is the one to look at when the building is the constraint. The 4400 gallon 5200000N42 goes the other way at 200 inches and 1700 pounds, three hundred more gallons and a heavier wall. Whether 45 degrees is the right cone for your liquid at all, against the shallower cones in the market, is argued out size by size in the cone bottom tank buyers guide, and that decision is worth making before the part number is.

Height or floor the limit? The table has both shapes; freight to your ZIP is quoted on each row, or call 866-418-1777 with the site.

The sheet lists no outlet, and on a cone that is the first thing to settle

• Outlet: the outlet field on this sheet is empty, so this page names no size, style or material. On a cone bottom tank that is the specification everything else waits on, because the discharge at the apex sets the valve, the drop to it, the clearance the stand needs and how fast 4100 gallons can actually leave. Quote it with us against this part number before the stand is built.
• Inlet: blank on the sheet as well. Decide whether the fill lands at the top, through a dip tube to the bottom, or at working level, because on a sixteen foot five inch shell a fill point in the wrong place is a permanent climb.
• Access: an 18 inch threaded vented manway at 197 inches. Fixed access, a rail, and a clear vent. A cone under pump suction with a blocked vent collapses inwards, and it does it faster than a flat tank because the volume above the outlet drops quickly at the end of a draw.
• The cone itself: the whole point of 45 degrees is that solids, slurries and settling material go out with the liquid instead of sitting on a flat floor waiting for someone to enter the tank. Keep the valve full bore rather than reduced, keep the drop below it straight, and do not put a long horizontal run between the apex and the first valve.
• Head and limits: a full shell puts sixteen feet five inches of liquid over the discharge, which is substantial static pressure at the apex and on the first joint. No temperature limit and no warranty term appear on this sheet, so this page asserts neither; the specific gravity rating of 1.5 is a density rating up to 51,291 pounds of contents and says nothing about temperature or chemical suitability, which get confirmed by naming the liquid.

Support the pipework off the stand and the pad, never off the cone, and put a flexible connector in the first joint so thermal movement and every pump start land on steel rather than on polyethylene. Leave room under the apex for a sample point and a bucket; a cone you cannot sample is a cone nobody trusts. Where the material settles or thickens, plan the wash-down before the first batch rather than after the first blockage, and where it freezes, protect the valve and the exposed run and let the body ice from the top down.

Mixing, batching and anything that has to drain instead of being swept out

The duty that justifies 197 inches of height for 4100 gallons is always the same: the contents have to come out completely. That is batching and blending in an agricultural chemical or fertilizer operation, a mix tank ahead of a spray or injection system, slurry and settling service in a mineral or wash plant, dewatering and sludge holding where solids separate and have to leave with the liquid, food and process duty where the vessel gets emptied and cleaned between runs, and any liquid dosing where the last gallons in the tank matter as much as the first. On a cone, complete drainage is the feature you paid the headroom for, so specify the discharge and the valve to suit the material rather than to suit the pipe you already have. Where the tank feeds or receives from a broader system that collects and re-uses process water in quality bands rather than treating each vessel on its own, the industrial water reuse tank topology article sets out the sequencing a cone sits inside.

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 60% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Aluminum Sulfate 50% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Calcium Chloride 40% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• DEF 32.5% - 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferrous Sulfate 20% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Magnesium Chloride 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Urea Solution 50% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrochloric Acid
• Hydrofluoric Acid
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid
• Hydrogen Peroxide
• Peracetic Acid
• Phosphoric Acid
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol
• Sodium Bisulfate
• Sodium Bisulfite
• Sodium Hypochlorite
• Sodium Thiosulfate
• Sulfuric Acid and
• Zinc Orthophosphate.Those higher-SG services also change the fitting and gasket spec - for example sodium hypochlorite, the acids, and hydrogen peroxide cal

Sixteen feet five inches of tank leaving Lincoln at class 400

The SII-5180000N49 is molded at Lincoln, Nebraska and rated class 400 as the sheet lists it, shipping at 90 inches by 90 inches by 197 inches. At sixteen feet five inches the load is tall rather than wide, so the route questions are overhead ones: power lines, a low bridge, a tree line over a farm entrance, and whether the yard has a machine that can lift 1000 pounds high enough to set a cone into a stand instead of onto the ground. Sort the unloading before the truck is booked. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Slings under the body, never a hook through the manway, and set it into the stand the same day it lands rather than laying it down in a yard where a cone has nothing flat to rest on. One thing a cone install earns you: fill it with clean water on the stand and hold it before the process is connected, watching the apex, the valve and every stand anchor, because a cone leaking at the apex empties itself in a way a flat tank never does. The vent screen is the cheapest part on the tank and the one that saves it; look at it every time the manway opens.