Snyder Industries 11500 Gallon 30 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank in White

Why the freight desk cares about 142 inches wide

The plant is Lincoln, Nebraska, the sheet gives Nebraska as the shipping state, and the freight field reads OVS rather than a numeric class. That one field is the difference between a delivery and a project. Shipped, this tank is 215 inches long by 142 inches wide by 142 inches high, and 142 inches of width puts it outside a standard trailer envelope, which means a permitted move with a route, a travel window and an escort where the states involved require one. The lane is not the problem. The lane is the lead time, and the sites that are caught out are the ones that treat the delivery as the last step instead of the first constraint. Before you order, walk the whole route into the compound: the gate posts, the turn off the highway, the overhead lines, the tree line, the culvert the truck crosses, the yard surface a heavy trailer has to reverse on. Photograph the tight points and price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator, because the listed price is before freight and an oversize lane is a number worth having early. The second constraint is the lift. At 2,850 pounds empty this is the lighter of the two 11,500 gallon listings we carry, which takes some load off the crane and none off the planning: a 214.5 inch tall vessel still has to be lifted clear, turned and set into its stand under control. And the stand is the third constraint, because the sheet publishes none. A 30 degree cone has no flat bottom to stand on, so the vessel is carried in a structure sized for the loaded weight, engineered and installed before the tank lands. Tell us the duty and we will take that question seriously rather than attach a guessed part number to it. Volume and freeboard are the easy part by comparison: run the batch size through the tank sizing calculator and take the headspace from the tank sizing guide before the civil drawings are issued.

Two listings of one shell, and the 7,400 beneath it

This tank sits with two other listings at 2,850 pounds and one at 3,600, all of them 11,500 gallons on a 142 inch diameter. The sheet prints the weights and offers no explanation, so neither do we; what we will say is that if a heavier wall is what your process calls for then 5340100N42 is the listing to be looking at, and if your site already owns one of these tanks then buying the matching part number keeps your manway, your gasket and your stand interchangeable. The rows worth real attention are the two at the bottom, and they make the same argument from opposite directions. SII-5320100N43 holds 7,400 gallons at 160 inches tall and 1,600 pounds on the identical 142 inch circle: less liquid, a much easier lift, a shorter stand, a lower platform and a cheaper oversize move. 7490100N49 holds 13,000 gallons at 238 inches and 3,250 pounds, again on the same circle. Every one of the three takes the same ground. What changes between them is height, weight and how hard the civil and lifting work becomes, which is why the honest order of decisions on a cone bottom project is ceiling and crane first, stand second, volume third. If your batch size genuinely needs 11,500 gallons, this is the lighter of the two listings at that volume and it is the one we would put on a quote unless a heavier wall is specified.

Picked the 11500 gallon tank? Add it to your cart above; freight is quoted to your ZIP before you pay anything.

Filling through 18 inches at 214 and a half

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway on top, the only opening this sheet publishes. At 214.5 inches that opening is reached from a platform, a caged ladder or a fixed fill line, and the access is designed with the stand rather than bolted on afterwards. Eighteen inches takes a fill line, a dip, a lance and an arm, which is what makes routine inspection possible at all on a vessel this size.
• The vent: the manway is listed as vented. On an 11,500 gallon vessel a great volume of air moves in and out on every fill and every draw-down, and the vent path is what keeps the wall out of trouble. Keep it clear, keep it unpainted, and look at it every time somebody is up there for anything else.
• The outlet and the inlet: neither is published on this sheet, so neither is stated here. On a cone bottom the discharge is designed together with the stand, the valve and the pump, and the fluid decides the material of all three. Tell us what it is and the specification gets done properly against the tank.
• The stand: not on this sheet. No stand, no stand height, no leg, no cone dimension beyond the 30 degrees in the name. The structure that carries an 11,500 gallon cone is an engineered purchase, sized for the loaded weight, and no part number is implied here.
• Pipework support: valves, meters, pumps and lines are carried on their own steel, never on the tank wall and never on the manway. At this scale a hard-piped joint into a polyethylene vessel is a leak with a date on it.
• Limits and term: 120 F / 48 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.9, and a 3 Year Warranty. Nothing further is published and nothing further is claimed.

Tell us the fluid before the quote, not after. The sheet's rated contents of 182,229 pounds is a number that makes the gasket, the valve body and the fitting material decisions rather than details. Where the product is regulated and the argument at your site is contained polyethylene against steel, the contained polyethylene versus steel comparison sets the two routes out properly.

Mixing, settling and drawing off the bottom

Eleven and a half thousand gallons over a cone is a process vessel, not a storage tank, and the buyers reflect that: liquid fertiliser and crop protection blending where product settles between seasons, chemical batching where the whole batch is drawn off and the vessel starts clean, mineral and mining process duty where solids report to the bottom by design, food and beverage plants that must empty completely between products, treatment works thickening sludge or holding polymer, and biofuel, brewing and fermentation duties where the yield is at the bottom. The common thread is that the last few hundred gallons are the ones that decide whether the vessel was the right purchase. A flat-bottomed tank of this size leaves a person with a hose and a shift to spare at every changeover; a cone gives it back. Which angle actually delivers that for your material is a question worth an hour with the cone bottom angle selection guide, because the shallow, medium and steep options behave differently with settled solids and there is no universal right answer. Settle the angle before the stand is drawn, since the stand is built around the tank and not the other way about.

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
• 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

Lincoln, Nebraska, at 2,850 pounds empty

Moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska listed as the shipping state. The sheet gives the freight as OVS under NMFC 156600 and the shipping dimensions as 215 inches long by 142 inches wide by 142 inches high, a half inch more height than the 214.5 inches the tank is listed at; both figures are on the sheet and both are printed. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator early in the project, because the listed price is before freight and an oversize move is not a line item you want to discover late. At 2,850 pounds empty the lift is lighter than its heavier twin but no simpler: rig under the body, never around the cone, never through the manway, and set the tank into a stand that was finished, levelled and inspected before the truck was booked. Fill with clean water in stages, and at every stage walk the stand legs, the seat, the discharge joints and the ground under the footings rather than saving it all for the top. Keep the shipment photographs and the delivery paperwork with the site file; on a permitted move they are the record of what arrived and in what condition, and that record is worth more the day something is disputed. Keep the delivery paperwork with the tank; the serial number on the shell is what a warranty claim starts from.