5500 Gallon 30 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank

Lincoln to your gate, and what that costs before the tank does

Twenty feet of tank is a freight decision as much as a storage decision, so this page starts where the tank starts: Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska as the origin state on the sheet. From central Nebraska the plains and the Midwest are a short lane, and the coasts, the Gulf and the Southwest are not. The class reads 500 beside an oversize ship mode, and the shipping size is listed at 241 by 241 by 90 inches carrying 2,000 pounds, which tells you everything about how this moves: it buys trailer space rather than weight allowance, and it is not going onto a part load at short notice. Put the site's ZIP into the estimator before you fall in love with the capacity, because on the biggest shells the lane can be the deciding line in the comparison. What follows from that is a schedule rather than a date. An oversize move books ahead, so the pad, the stand, the anchors, the pipe route and the offload plan all want to be finished against that booking instead of chased after it. And the offload on this one deserves genuine thought, because standing 241 inches of shell up needs clear air above the trailer, ground wide enough to swing it, and named equipment and people. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is described here. Then the structure, which at this height is the serious part of the installation. 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 is stated anywhere on this page; the support is a separate item with its own drawing and its own lead time. Give whoever specifies the pad the published load case rather than the gallon figure: 2,000 pounds of empty tank, 45,870 pounds full of water, and up to 87,153 pounds of contents at the rating on this sheet, all of it arriving through a few feet inside a 90 inch circle. Size the volume with the tank sizing calculator, take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide, and if the angle is still open, read the cone angle selection guide before the geometry is fixed.

The fifty-five hundred trio, a shorter one and a much wider one

This is the clearest height-against-floor table in the range and it is worth reading twice. The top four rows are one shell at 5,500 gallons, 90 inches across and 241 inches tall, separated on the sheet by empty weight and by the name printed on each: 2,000 pounds on this listing and on the heavy duty row, 1,500 pounds on two others. One of those rows is listed black, which is a light question rather than a strength question and the only difference the sheet supports there. The bottom two rows change the building entirely. 8050200C75501 holds 5,000 gallons on a 102 inch circle at 166 inches, six feet shorter than this tank for a modest loss of volume. 5280200N40 holds 6,000 gallons on a 142 inch circle at 136 inches, more liquid than this tank in a shell barely eleven feet tall, and it wants a great deal more floor and a much wider pad and bund to do it. Those three shapes are the real decision: tall and narrow, medium, or short and wide. Height is cheap in floor terms and expensive in building terms; width is the reverse. What does not change with the shape is the rating, and on this listing it is 1.9 with 87,153 pounds of max contents, the largest allowance on any page in this batch. Match that against your own liquid's weight per gallon rather than against the other rows' weights. If this capacity is the decision in front of you, the complete buyer's guide to a fifty-five hundred gallon cone bottom tank walks the whole selection rather than one part number.

Comparing across brands too? Call 866-418-1777; we carry Norwesco, Snyder, Chem-Tainer, Enduraplas and Bushman and will say which one fits, or price the freight first.

One threaded vented manway, twenty feet off the ground

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, with the lid size field also reading 18 inches, and it is the only opening this sheet dimensions. On a tank this tall the opening is a planning item rather than a detail, because everything that has to reach it has to reach 241 inches of shell plus the stand.
• Its vent: the vent comes with the manway rather than as a separate item, and on a shell this size the air path is not optional. A tall column being drawn down by pump moves a great deal of air, and a blocked vent puts that load into the wall instead. Keep it clear, inspect it whenever the tank is open, and never blank, wrap or tape it.
• Access: no ladder lugs and no structural attachments are counted on this sheet, so the ladder, cage or platform belongs to the structure and should be drawn with it. Land the fill at a coupling at working level; nobody should be carrying a hose to the top of this one.
• The outlet: this sheet publishes none and the inlet field is empty as well, so no discharge dimension, thread, bulkhead, drain or valve is claimed here. Tell us the line size, the valve type and the liquid, and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• Below the cone: whatever you fit at the low point holds up the column above it, and this sheet allows that column to reach 87,153 pounds, the heaviest in this batch. Carry the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe on steelwork off the stand rather than on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint.
• Published limits: a specific gravity rating of 1.9, 45,870 pounds of water at 5,500 gallons and 87,153 pounds of max contents. No max operating temperature and no warranty term is published on this sheet, and neither is claimed.

Thirty degrees is the maker's name word for this listing and the cone degrees field is empty; if drainage behaviour is what decides the purchase, ask us to confirm the geometry against the part number rather than reading it off an image.

Bulk storage where a full load lands in one vessel

Fifty-five hundred gallons is bought by operations that want a delivery to arrive in one place and leave in one piece. Bulk chemistry held at working strength at a water or wastewater works, liquid fertiliser and crop input storage at an agricultural retailer through a season, process liquid and intermediate holding in manufacturing, concentrate held between production runs, and recovered or waste streams accumulated until a tanker is worth calling. At this volume the arithmetic that matters is cost per truck drop and how often you have to schedule one, and a vessel that takes a whole load without splitting it cuts both the handling and the paperwork. The 1.9 rating with 87,153 pounds of max contents is what lets that volume be dense rather than merely large, which is the point of this row; if your liquid is no heavier than water there are lighter rows on this shell carrying their own figures. The cone earns its keep at the other end of the cycle, when the vessel has to be emptied and cleaned between products and there is no floor for a layer to sit on. Two honest cautions. This sheet publishes no temperature limit, so a hot fill is a conversation rather than an assumption. And 241 inches of liquid is a tall column that stratifies more readily than a wide shallow one, so if your product wants to separate, plan the draw point and the mixing arrangement at the same time as the tank. Name the liquid when you enquire and start the check in our chemical compatibility reference, because the gasket and fitting selection follows the chemistry rather than the vessel.

Rated chemistries for this tank

The manufacturer lists these liquids for this resin at the concentrations noted, with the fitting and gasket material to specify. Check the concentration and temperature you actually run on the linked page 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
• Ethylene Glycol (100%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferric Chloride (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferric Sulfate (60%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Hydrochloric Acid (37%) - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrofluoric Acid (48%) - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (26%) - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrogen Peroxide (50%) - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Magnesium Chloride (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Peracetic Acid (30%) - 316SS fittings, Aflas gaskets
• Phosphoric Acid (85%) - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Polyaluminum Chloride - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Potassium Carbonate (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Potassium Hydroxide (Saturated) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Propylene Glycol - PP/316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Bisulfate - PVC/PP fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Bisulfite - PVC/PP fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Hypochlorite (
• Sodium Thiosulfate (40%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sulfuric Acid (98%) - CPVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Urea Solution (50%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Zinc Orthophosphate - PP/316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets

Two thousand pounds, oversize, and the lift nobody planned

The freight class reads 500 beside an oversize ship mode and no NMFC number is published. The shipping size is listed at 241 by 241 by 90 inches, the tank lying down, at 2,000 pounds. Get the lane figure with the freight cost estimator before anything is committed; the listed price is before freight. The part of this delivery that goes wrong is never the driving. It is the twenty minutes when twenty feet of tank has to come off a trailer and stand up in a yard that was measured for the tank's footprint rather than for its length lying down. Walk the route and the standing area first, with a tape, including the swing at the far end. Make sure there is air above the trailer clear of cables, gantries and building edges. Nominate the machine and the operator before the collection is booked, not on the morning. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is described here; agree the offload arrangement and the window with us in advance. Have the stand set, levelled and anchored before the truck is due. No lifting lugs are counted on this sheet, so sling under the body rather than off the manway and keep the shell restrained from the moment it is vertical. Commission with clean water rather than 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. Because this listing will hold something heavier than water, watch the stand feet again on the first full product fill; that is the load the structure has never carried before and it is the day to be standing there. Write the fill date on the manway with a paint marker; it answers the first question anyone asks about a tank.