5500 Gallon 30 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank in White

Origin, lane and lead time, before the part number

Work this purchase from the plant outward. The tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Nebraska is the origin state on the sheet, so the Midwest and the plains sit on a short lane and the coasts, the Gulf and the Southwest do not. The freight class reads 400 beside an oversize ship mode, and the shipping size is listed at 241 by 90 by 90 inches carrying 1,500 pounds. That is a twenty foot package around a modest weight, which prices on the space it occupies, moves on a booking rather than on a whim, and cannot be squeezed onto a part load when somebody remembers it late. Put the site's own ZIP into the estimator early; the number it returns is often what decides between a tall shell from this plant and a different shape altogether. Lead time is the second half of that thought. Because the move is booked rather than routine, everything at your end should be finished against the booking: the pad poured and cured, the stand set and anchored, the pipe route agreed, the offload equipment and people named. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is described on this page. Then the structure, which on a shell of 240.5 inches is the installation rather than an accessory to it. A cone bottom tank has no flat floor and cannot stand on its own bottom, and this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern, so no stand height, rated load, leg count or material appears here. The published load case is what the structure has to answer and it is what belongs on the pad drawing: 1,500 pounds of empty tank, 45,870 pounds full of water and up to 68,805 pounds of contents at the rating, all through a few feet inside a 90 inch circle instead of across a slab. This row also publishes a service limit of 100 F / 37 C, so shade, orientation and fill temperature are part of siting rather than afterthoughts. Size the volume with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide before the concrete is specified.

The same fifty-five hundred shell, read by rating

Four rows at 5,500 gallons stand on the same 90 inch circle and the sheet separates them by empty weight and by the name on each: 1,500 pounds on this listing and on two others, 2,000 pounds on the heavy duty row. One of the rows is listed black, which is a question about light rather than about strength, and the sheet supports no other difference there. This listing's height reads 240.5 inches where its shellmates read 241; both are on the sheet and both are printed as given. The rating is the axis that matters to a buyer, and this is the 1.5 row with 68,805 pounds of max contents, which is a large allowance for anything that weighs about what water weighs. If your product is genuinely denser, the heavy duty row exists for exactly that and carries its own figures; if it is not, the difference between the two stays in your pocket rather than buying wall you will never load. The bottom two rows are for buildings rather than liquids. The 5,000 gallon row on a 102 inch circle at 166 inches is six feet shorter than this tank for a modest loss of volume. The 6,000 gallon row on a 142 inch circle at 136 inches holds more than this tank at barely eleven feet tall and wants a much larger pad, bund and footprint to do it. Decide which of those three shapes your site can actually take before you compare gallons, because the shape decides the civils and the civils are the part that cannot be changed later. The long read on this capacity is the complete buyer's guide to a fifty-five hundred gallon cone bottom tank.

Torn between two rows? Call 866-418-1777 with the liquid and the ceiling height, or ask for a quote on both and compare the freight.

The lid you fill through and the limit printed beside it

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, with the lid size field reading 18 inches as well. It is the only opening this sheet dimensions, and it is the route in for product, for a dip tape and for an inspection light, so it is worth confirming the closure and gasket against the part number before anything is bought for it.
• Its vent: the vent arrives as part of the manway rather than separately, and it is what protects the wall while a pump draws 5,500 gallons down. Keep it clear, look at it every time the tank is open, and never blank, wrap or tape it to control an odour.
• The limit beside them: this row publishes a service limit of 100 F / 37 C and a 3 year warranty. Both belong in the fitting conversation, because a hose that delivers warm product to the top of the tank is exactly where that limit gets tested.
• Getting up there: 240.5 inches of shell plus the stand, with no ladder lugs and no structural attachments counted on this sheet. The ladder or platform goes with the structure, and the fill line belongs at a coupling at working level rather than at the top.
• The bottom end: the outlet field and the inlet field are both empty on this sheet, so no discharge dimension, thread, bulkhead, drain or valve is claimed. Whatever you do fit at the low point carries the column above it, and the sheet allows that column to reach 68,805 pounds, so support the valve, any reducer and the first pipe run on steelwork off the stand with a flexible connector at the first joint.
• Published limits: a specific gravity rating of 1.5, 45,870 pounds of water at 5,500 gallons and 68,805 pounds of max contents, alongside the service limit and the term above. Tell us the line size you need to land and the product, and we will confirm what this part number carries before it ships.

Nothing else on this sheet is dimensioned, so the rest of the fitting schedule is settled in conversation before the order rather than read off a page afterwards.

Clean water duty at fifty-five hundred gallons

This is the everyday row at a large capacity, and the everyday duty is water and things that weigh about what water weighs. Process and treated water holding that still has to drain fully, stored water for washdown, irrigation and make-up at an agricultural or industrial site, polymer and coagulant preparation at a water or wastewater works, batch preparation and intermediate holding in manufacturing, wash and rinse systems emptied between runs, and buffer volume between two stages running at different rates. A specific gravity rating of 1.5 with 68,805 pounds of max contents is a generous allowance for that work, which is the point of the row: it is the honest buy when the heavy duty listing would be paperwork rather than capability. The volume suits an operation that would rather take one delivery than three, and the cone means a product change is a rinse rather than a recovery job, because there is no floor for a layer to sit on. Two things to plan around rather than discover. The published service limit is 100 F / 37 C, which matters on a hot wash, on a warm recovered stream and on a shell standing in full sun through a southern summer. And a 240.5 inch column stratifies more readily than a wide shallow vessel does, so if your blend wants to separate, decide the draw point and the mixing arrangement when you decide the tank rather than after the first batch disappoints you. Check the liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the gaskets and valves are chosen, because the chemistry decides the trim and the vessel does not.

Chemical service ratings

The resin is rated for the liquids below at the concentrations shown; the fitting and gasket called out are the ones to order with the tank. Verify the exact service on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Aluminum Sulfate (50%)
• Calcium Chloride (40%)
• DEF (32.5%)
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%)
• Magnesium Chloride (30%)
• Sodium Carbonate (30%)
• Urea Solution (50%), and ozonated water (up to 10 PPM), when fitted appropriately. Acetic Acid and Urea Solution accept PP or PVC fittings; Aluminum Sulf
• 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 or
• Zinc Orthophosphate step up to the 1.9 SG version rather than running this tank past its rating. Gasket material matters on that list: Hydrochloric, Hydrofluo

Fifteen hundred pounds, class 400, and standing it up

The freight class on this sheet reads 400 beside an oversize ship mode, and no NMFC number is published. The shipping size is listed at 241 by 90 by 90 inches, the tank lying down, at 1,500 pounds. Price the lane to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Everything difficult about this delivery happens in the yard rather than on the road. Twenty feet of shell has to come off a trailer and be stood upright in a space that was probably measured for its footprint, so walk the route with a tape first, including the swing at the end of it, and check the air above the trailer for cables, gantries and building edges. Nominate the machine and the operator before the collection is booked. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is described here; agree the offload arrangement and the delivery window with us in advance. Set, level and anchor the stand before the truck is due, since a cone bottom tank cannot wait safely on the ground. No lifting lugs are counted on this sheet, so sling under the body rather than off the manway and restrain the shell the moment it is vertical. Commission with clean water before product: hold the 45,870 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. Then check the anchor bolts again a week later, because new ground settles under a new load, and mark the vent and the outlet position on the shell so nobody caps the wrong one in the dark. The first fill is the only cheap time to find a problem, so do it in daylight with someone watching the base.