6000 Gallon 30 Degree HDPE Cone Bottom Tank in White

The duty that needs six thousand gallons to leave by one point

Start with the work, because at 6000 gallons the shape is a decision somebody made about the duty rather than about the tank. A cone bottom vessel this size is bought when the contents have to leave completely and on schedule. Bulk chemical or liquid feed held at a plant and drawn down through a production week. Polymer, coagulant or process solution made up in volume and pulled off by pump. Agricultural blends that change through the season and cannot be carried forward from one mix into the next. Slurries and suspensions where anything that settles has to keep moving toward the discharge instead of building a bed on a floor. Wash, rinse and recovery volumes that cycle and have to be emptied before the next product goes in. In each of those, the cone earns its price at the changeover, not during the run. A flat bottom at this scale leaves a residue measured in hundreds of gallons; on 50,040 pounds of water that residue is a disposal ticket, a contamination risk in the next batch, or both. Then the envelope, because it is the real constraint. This tank is 142 inches across, eleven feet ten inches, and 136 inches tall, eleven feet four inches, before anything is put underneath it. It is a wide vessel rather than a tall one, which is why it turns up on outdoor pads, in tank farms and in high-bay buildings where floor area is available and height is not. A cone bottom tank has no flat floor and cannot stand on its own bottom, so a support structure carries the whole of it, and that structure has to be specified, set, levelled and anchored before the tank arrives. This sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern, so this page prints none. What it does publish is the load the structure has to take: 1250 pounds of empty tank, 50,040 pounds of water and 95,076 pounds at the rating, arriving at a handful of stand feet inside a 142 inch circle rather than spread over a slab. Stack the finished height as well, because a cone installation adds up: the support, plus 136 inches of shell, plus the clearance a person needs above the 18 inch manway to open it and run a fill line into it. Measure to the lowest fixed thing over the spot, not to the roof. Size the volume honestly with the tank sizing calculator, take the freeboard discipline from the tank sizing guide, and where the angle rather than the volume is the question, the cone angle selection guide works through it properly.

Four listings on this envelope, and two tall columns beside them

Cover the part numbers and the top four rows are one envelope: identical gallons, an identical 142 inch circle and an identical 136 inch height. What separates them on paper is weight, and the sheet gives 1250 pounds for this listing and for 5280200N42, 1100 pounds for 5280200N40 and 5280200N46. Nothing on this record describes a wall thickness, a layer count or a construction difference behind those weights, so this page describes none, and anybody reading one off a catalogue photograph is guessing. This listing publishes its own material field as High Density Linear Polyethylene and its own rating as 1.9 with 95,076 pounds of max contents, and those are the figures this page stands behind. If a different weight or a different colour on one of the other three is what your specification calls for, send us the part number and we will confirm in writing what that record carries before an order is placed. The last two rows are the genuinely useful comparison, because they are a different shape entirely. 7040000N40 holds 5500 gallons on a 90 inch circle at 241 inches tall, and 7180000N40 holds 6500 gallons on that same 90 inch circle at 273 inches. Both are columns: they buy their volume out of height and give back floor area, where this tank does the opposite. Between the three the rule reads plainly. If the building has ceiling and no floor, take a 90 inch column; if the pad is open and the roof is low or absent, this 142 inch circle is the one, and it is the shortest of the three by a long way. Where this volume is a first cone bottom purchase, the 6000 gallon cone bottom tank buyer's guide takes the whole decision from support to discharge in one place.

Want us to check the fit? Send the site dimensions to 866-418-1777 or through a written quote request and we will confirm the tank, the pad and the freight.

The discharge the sheet never sizes, under an eighteen inch manway

• The drain path first, because on a cone it is the whole point of the shape: the lowest point of the vessel is a single spot and everything in the tank runs toward it. On 6000 gallons that is the difference between a rinse and a shovel at the product change.
• What the record does not size: the outlet field on this sheet is empty. No outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published, so none is claimed here. 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 anything is ordered.
• The cone angle: the listing name reads 30 Degree and the sheet carries no cone angle field. That is stated exactly that way on this page. If the way your product slides is what decides the purchase, ask and we will confirm the geometry against the part number rather than reading it off an image.
• Carrying the pipework: whatever is fitted, the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe belong on their own steelwork off the support and never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint so pump vibration stays out of the wall. With 95,076 pounds of rated contents standing above it, the bottom of a full column is the wrong place to hang dead weight.
• Access on top: an 18 inch threaded vented manway at 136 inches plus the height of the support, which puts it well above head height in every installation. A platform or fixed ladder with a fall protection plan belongs in the same drawing as the structure, and the fill line belongs at a coupling at working level rather than up a ladder in somebody's hand.
• The vent: it arrives with the manway on this sheet rather than as a separately specified item. On a tank being drawn down by pump the air path is what protects the wall, so keep it clear, look at it every time the manway is opened, and never blank, tape or wrap it.
• Ratings and blanks: a specific gravity rating of 1.9, 50,040 pounds of water at 6000 gallons, 95,076 pounds of max contents, a lid field of 18 inches. No inlet, no service limit, no warranty term, no NMFC number and no structural lug or flange detail appears on this record, and none is stated.

One consequence of the size belongs here rather than in a footnote: nobody sees into a vessel eleven feet ten inches across from the ground, so the level instrument is the only honest picture of what is in the top of it, and it is cheaper to choose well than to retrofit on a full tank.

Who runs a six thousand gallon cone, and what a shift looks like on it

The buyer here is rarely buying a tank; they are buying a working volume that has to turn over. A water or wastewater works making up and drawing down a treatment chemical continuously. An agricultural retail yard holding a blend that loads applicator tanks through a season and changes product between them. A manufacturing plant running a recipe where the last batch cannot be allowed to show up in the next one. A food, beverage or process operation that holds and rinses. A recovery system taking back wash water and re-dosing it. The shift looks the same in every case: fill, hold, draw off, rinse, repeat, with somebody accountable at the end of it for what is still in the vessel. That is the argument for the shape and for the support structure the shape demands. Two honest cautions belong in the same breath, and both are about what the record does and does not say. The first is the rating. The 1.9 figure on this sheet is a wall rating: it describes how dense a liquid the wall is rated to hold, and it says nothing at all about how your particular product behaves against polyethylene. We will not pretend otherwise from a product page. Name the liquid, the concentration and the temperature it genuinely sits at through the year when you enquire, check it in our chemical compatibility reference before a gasket, a seal or a valve is chosen, and let the chemistry decide those rather than the tank. The second is temperature. This record publishes no service limit at all, so this page states none; if your process runs warm, ask us with the numbers rather than assuming a figure from a sister listing. Day to day the habits that keep a large cone honest are dull and they work. Confirm every support foot is bearing before the first fill and again after it. Walk the full circle when you inspect, because nearly twelve feet of diameter means nobody sees the far side from where they are standing. Read the manway seal and the cone joint in daylight rather than under a torch. Keep a written record of what went into the tank and when, because on a vessel that changes product the history is worth more than any single inspection.

Liquids this resin is rated to store

These entries are the manufacturer's ratings for this resin, each with the concentration limit and the fitting and gasket to specify. Your concentration and temperature are confirmed on the chemical page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Sulfuric Acid at 98% (CPVC fittings)
• Hydrochloric Acid at 37% (PVC)
• Phosphoric Acid at 85% (PVC)
• Hydrofluoric Acid at 48% (PP/PVC)
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid at 26% (PP/PVC)
• Sodium Hypochlorite below 16.5% (PVC), and
• Hydrogen Peroxide at 50% (PVC).EPDM-gasket chemicals include
• Ferric Chloride at 50% (PVC)
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50% (PVC)
• Potassium Hydroxide saturated (PVC)
• Calcium Chloride at 40% (PVC)
• DEF at 32.5% (316SS fittings)
• Acetic Acid at 60% (PP/PVC)
• Ethylene Glycol at 100% (PVC)
• Ferric Sulfate at 60% (PVC)
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20% (PVC)
• Magnesium Chloride at 30% (PVC)
• Polyaluminum Chloride (PVC)
• Potassium Carbonate at 50% (PVC)
• Propylene Glycol (PP/316SS)
• Sodium Bisulfate (PVC/PP)
• Sodium Bisulfite (PVC/PP)
• Sodium Carbonate at 30% (PVC)
• Sodium Thiosulfate at 40% (PVC)
• Urea Solution at 50% (PP/PVC)
• Zinc Orthophosphate (PP/316SS), and Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM (PVC).The lone Aflas case is
• Peracetic Acid at 30% (316SS fittings).The mistake to avoid is defaulting EPDM everywhere - reach for Viton on the oxidizers and Aflas on peracetic acid.V

Twelve hundred and fifty pounds out of Lincoln on an oversize ticket

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Nebraska is the shipping state on the record, which puts the central plains on a short lane and both coasts on a planned one. The freight class field reads 500, a numeric class rather than a mode, the ship mode reads oversize, and the sheet publishes no NMFC number. It shipments at 142 inches by 142 inches by 136 inches at 1250 pounds, which is a very large package at a modest weight, and that combination is exactly why the ticket reads the way it does: a hollow moulded vessel this size fills trailer space without loading it. Price the lane to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. It travels lying down and somebody stands it up at your end, and that standing operation is the part of the day that goes wrong when nobody has planned it. This sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is stated 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 a cone bottom tank with nowhere to stand is a tank lying in your yard occupying the space you needed for it. Sling under the body, never by the manway, and keep it restrained from the moment it is upright, because an empty shell eleven feet ten inches across takes wind at a speed that surprises people every time. Then prove the installation with clean water rather than with product: hold the 50,040 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the support feet and the pad edge in that order, and leave it standing full overnight before a single line is connected. Photograph the tank standing full on day one and file the photograph with the paperwork; it settles every later argument about whether anything has moved, and it costs nothing on the day. A photo of the tank on its pad, full, on day one is worth keeping; it is the baseline every later inspection is compared against.