Snyder Industries 11500 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

Nebraska origin, and what a two hundred and fifteen inch load does to a lane

Take the freight first on a tank this size, because it decides the programme and sometimes decides the purchase. It is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska given as the origin state, so the central states are the short run and the coasts are a long one. The shipping size is listed at 142 by 142 by 215 inches at 2,850 pounds: nearly twelve feet across and a shade under eighteen feet long lying down, at a weight a lift truck of the right size handles comfortably. That combination, enormous by volume and moderate by weight, is what makes a tank like this expensive to move and easy to underestimate. Ask the practical questions early. Can the truck physically reach the spot. Is there a gate, a canopy, an overhead line or a tree on the last stretch. Is there a clear circle of firm ground big enough to stand a twelve foot vessel up in rather than a corner it has to be turned in. Who stands it, with what machine, on what day. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is stated here, which is precisely why those arrangements are agreed with us before the truck is booked instead of discovered on the morning. Under all of it goes a structure, and that is the second half of the programme. A cone bottom vessel has no flat floor, so it cannot rest on its own bottom, and this record publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern. The stand is bought separately, drawn separately, and set, levelled and anchored before the tank arrives. No stand height, rated load or material appears on this page because none appears on the sheet. What does appear is the load that structure carries: 2,850 pounds of empty tank, 95,910 pounds of water and 143,865 pounds at the rating, all of it arriving through a handful of stand feet inside a 142 inch circle rather than spreading across a slab. Seventy-two tons at the rating is engineered ground with a designed bearing area at each foot. Height finishes the picture and it is unforgiving: the stand, plus 215 inches of shell, plus clearance above an 18 inch manway, plus the room the cone needs to discharge into underneath. Very few buildings take that, which is why vessels this size usually stand outdoors, where restraint and wind exposure become the design question instead of headroom. Settle the support with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix, size the volume with the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The lighter listing on a shell that does not change

Cover the part number column and four of these rows are indistinguishable: identical gallons, identical 142 inch circle, identical 215 inch height. What separates them is the empty weight and the rating each sheet publishes, 2,850 pounds on the two lighter listings and 3,600 pounds on the two heavy duty ones. This page carries a specific gravity rating of 1.5 with 143,865 pounds of max contents, and that is the figure to decide on. Water, treated water and the large family of process liquids no heavier than water are exactly what it covers, and that is most of what a bulk cone bottom tank actually holds. Buying a heavier rating you will never load is money spent on paperwork rather than on the installation. None of these sheets describes a wall thickness, a layer count or any construction difference, so this page describes none and invents no explanation for the weight gap. The bottom two rows are the volume question, and because the circle never changes they come down purely to height. SII-5320100N43 holds 7,400 gallons at 160 inches, which gives back nearly five feet of height and is the honest buy when the real batch is smaller than the round number in the specification. 7490100N49 holds 13,000 gallons at 238 inches, close to twenty feet, at 3,250 pounds. Moving along that ladder changes nothing about your pad outline, your bund or your access, which is rare in tank selection and worth exploiting when the site rather than the specification is the constraint. A bulk vessel is also read from the outside by people who did not order it, so settle the marking at the same time as the size with the tank label and signage guide, which reconciles the different marking schemes on one vessel.

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.

Reading the lid, the vent and the bare outlet field

• The lid: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, at 215 inches plus the height of the stand. Nothing about that is reachable from the ground, so a platform or fixed ladder with a fall protection plan belongs in the same drawing as the foundation, and the fill belongs at a coupling at working level rather than over the top.
• The vent: supplied with the manway on this sheet rather than specified separately. On a vessel being pumped down the air path is the wall's protection, so keep it clear, check it every time the tank is opened, and never blank or tape it.
• The outlet field: a bare 13 on this record. That is the field value and not a pipe size, so no bore, thread, bulkhead or valve is stated. Give us the line size you need to land and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• The cone: 30 degrees, published. That angle keeps a free-flowing liquid moving toward one point and will hold onto anything that packs. If your product consolidates, say so when you enquire.
• Inlet: none published. The fill route is therefore designed rather than assumed, and the air path is sized to the faster of your fill rate and your draw rate rather than to whichever one came to mind first.
• Ratings, structure and blanks: a specific gravity rating of 1.5, 95,910 pounds of water at 11,500 gallons, 143,865 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C. The sheet notes ladder lugs and 2 flange lines, and publishes no warranty term and no NMFC number.

Two things are cheaper to settle now than later. How the level is read, because on a vessel this deep the wrong instrument gives a confident number that is wrong all year: the level gauge selection guide works through the technologies honestly. And what happens underneath after a release, which is a containment question rather than a tank question: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained route against the alternatives before a bund is poured around the wrong thing.

Bulk water and blends no denser than water

This is the workhorse listing in the group: bulk volume at a rating that covers ordinary duty. Process and treated water holding that still has to drain fully. Polymer and coagulant make-up at a water or wastewater works. Liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer or a terminal. Batch preparation and intermediate holding in manufacturing. Rainwater and process water storage feeding something by gravity. Wash and rinse water systems emptied between runs. Buffer volume between two stages that run at different rates. In every one of them the cone earns its keep at the changeover rather than during the run, which is the part people who have only used flat bottomed tanks underestimate: the vessel keeps draining toward one low point instead of leaving a ring of product on a floor. At 11,500 gallons that residue is not a nuisance, it is a volume somebody has to account for and dispose of. The caution that belongs with this shape is stratification, because a column just under eighteen feet tall separates more readily than a wide shallow vessel does. If your product wants to settle, plan the draw point and the mixing arrangement together rather than one after the other. And start from the chemistry rather than the vessel: check whatever you intend to hold in our chemical compatibility reference before the gaskets and valves are chosen, because the product decides those and the tank does not.

Chemical ratings on record for this resin

What the manufacturer lists for this resin, liquid by liquid, with the concentration ceiling and the fitting and gasket material. Your concentration and temperature get checked on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic Acid (60%, PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets)
• Aluminum Sulfate (50%, PVC, EPDM)
• Calcium Chloride (40%, PVC, EPDM)
• DEF (32.5%, 316SS fittings, EPDM)
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%, PVC, EPDM)
• Magnesium Chloride (30%, PVC, EPDM)
• Sodium Carbonate (30%, PVC, EPDM)
• Urea Solution (50%, PP/PVC, EPDM), and Ozonated Water (up to 10 PPM, PVC, EPDM).EPDM gaskets cover this entire compatible set; match the fitting material
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (PP/PVC fittings and Viton gaskets - the one gasket exception in this whole set)
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol (PP/316SS fittings), and
• Sodium Thiosulfate.If your application is on that list, do not order this 1.5 SG tank - step up to the 1.9 SG version and call 866-418-1777 for that quote.

Class 300 on a tank that fills a trailer by volume

Moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska as the origin state on the sheet. The freight class reads 300, a numeric class rather than a mode, the ship mode reads LTL, and no NMFC number is published. The shipping size is listed at 142 inches by 142 inches by 215 inches at 2,850 pounds, so it takes trailer space rather than payload, and that is why the quote on a tank like this tracks its size and not its weight. Price your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. It travels lying down and is stood up at your end, an operation that needs a machine and a nominated person rather than improvisation. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail and this page states none; settle the offload equipment and the window with us before the truck is booked. Set, level and anchor the stand first, because there is nowhere sensible to park a vessel this size while a foundation cures. Lift under the body with slings, never by the manway or the top of the cone, and keep it restrained the moment it stands upright, because an empty shell twelve feet across moves in wind well before anybody expects it to. Then prove the installation with clean water: hold the 95,910 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the ground around the pad in daylight, and leave it standing full overnight. Walk the pad again after the first hard rain, because a new load settles the ground under it and the edge of the pad is where that shows first. The first fill is the only cheap time to find a problem, so do it in daylight with someone watching the base.