Snyder Industries 1500 Gallon XLPE Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank

The narrow column against the wide 1600 on the same sheet

This sheet puts two very different tanks of nearly the same volume in front of you, and the family is the fastest way to choose. This listing is 1,500 gallons on a 64 inch circle at 141 inches. The other is 1,600 gallons on a 95 inch circle at 72 inches. Same job, opposite shapes, and the building decides rather than the datasheet. Take this one when floor is what you do not have: a 64 inch circle fits between plant room aisles and inside bunds that a 95 inch circle will never enter, and it leaves room to work around the tank rather than edging past it. Take the wide shell when the roof is low, because 141 inches of shell plus a stand plus clearance above the manway is a real height and it is measured from the lowest fixed thing over the spot, not from the ridge. Beyond shape, this listing pairs a 45 degree cone with a specific gravity rating of 1.9 and 23,769 pounds of max contents, which is a specific combination: steep drainage and a wall figure for product heavier than water. If your product settles or thickens, that steeper angle is the reason to look here first rather than at a shallower cone. The colour field reads Black, so daylight stops at the wall and the level is read by instrument rather than by eye. The support is separate, as it is on every cone. There is no flat floor, the tank 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 or material is stated here. What it has to answer is 315 pounds of empty tank, 12,510 pounds of water and up to 23,769 pounds at the rating, arriving through a few stand feet inside a 64 inch circle, which is a small circle for a load that size and worth saying plainly to whoever designs the ground. Size the volume with the tank sizing calculator, take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide, and settle the support against the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix before a part number is fixed.

Three 1500 listings, a 1400 and a 1600

The top four rows are the same 1,500 gallon column at 315 pounds, separated by the colour field and by the way the sheet spells each part number; two of them carry the SII- prefix and two do not, and we print each exactly as it is listed rather than tidying them into one style. One of the four is listed at 140.75 inches rather than 141, which is how the sheet has it, and we print that as given without reconciling it. The rows worth arguing over are the last two. 1900000N42 holds 1,400 gallons on an 86 inch circle at 80 inches, and for most buildings the height it hands back matters more than the capacity it gains. 8330000N42 holds 1,600 gallons on a 95 inch circle at 72 inches, the widest and lowest of the three. Lay those next to this column and the trade is stark: this tank asks for a 64 inch circle and gives back nothing in height; the other two ask for a great deal more floor and hand back most of the height. Weight follows the same line, 315 pounds here against 245 and 277 pounds on the squat shells, and that shows up on the day of the lift rather than in the specification. Choose the circle your room can give up, then read the capacities that fit it. Where the crosslinked wall is the question rather than the shape, our read on XLPE against HDPE for chemistry duty is the place to start, and the capacity has its own long-form treatment in the complete buyer's guide to a 1500 gallon cone bottom tank at 45 degrees.

Other makers in the running? 866-418-1777 will compare them honestly; Norwesco, Snyder, Chem-Tainer, Enduraplas and Bushman are all here, or price freight on this one.

The vented manway at 141 inches, and the 45 degree cone below it

• The manway and the vent: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, with the vent arriving as part of it rather than as a separate item. On a column being pumped down that air path is what keeps the wall out of trouble, so keep it clear, inspect it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank, tape or wrap it. It sits at the top of 141 inches of shell plus the stand, so this is a working-at-height job on every site and the fall protection plan belongs in the same drawing as the structure.
• Filling: land the fill line at a coupling at working level rather than asking anyone to carry a hose to the top, and size the air path to the faster of your fill rate and your draw rate rather than to whichever you thought of first. No inlet is published on this sheet, so the fill route is designed rather than assumed.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid. That names an opening and not a discharge, and we print the field exactly as it reads. No outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published or claimed here. Tell us the line size, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before anything is ordered.
• The cone: published at 45 degrees, the steepest in this batch, which is the angle to want when the product thickens, settles or leaves a film. Everything hung at the low point carries the column above it, and this sheet allows that column to reach 23,769 pounds, so put the valve, any reducer and the first pipe run on steelwork off the stand rather than on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint.
• What the sheet does dimension: 4 tiedown lugs and 2 flange lines. It counts no lifting lugs and no ladder lugs, so plan neither the lift nor the access off the shell.
• Inlet, lid size, warranty and NMFC: none of the four is published and none is claimed. Published: a specific gravity rating of 1.9, 12,510 pounds of water at 1,500 gallons, 23,769 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

A tall black column gives no view of the contents from any angle, so the level instrument is doing all of the work here and deserves choosing properly rather than late.

Settling duty where the footprint is small

A narrow column with a steep cone is a specific tool and the operations that buy it know why. Tall narrow vessels separate a suspension faster than wide shallow ones, because the solids travel a short horizontal distance and a long vertical one and end up where the geometry sends them, which here is a single low point on a 45 degree slope. So: sludge and settled solids handling at a small works, wash water recovery, recovered process liquid waiting for a decision, thickened product held between stages, concentrated mineral and salt solutions in a plant room with no floor to spare, and batch make-up where the vessel changes product and must give all of it back. The 1.9 rating with 23,769 pounds of max contents is the other half of the reason, because most of those duties involve something heavier than water. The 64 inch circle is the third: this tank goes into rooms and bunds that a wide shell cannot enter, and it stands in a corner a squat tank would have taken the whole of. The honest cautions are the ones the shape brings. A tall column stratifies, which is useful when you want it to and a nuisance when you do not, so plan the draw point and any mixing arrangement together. And the lid is high, so the access arrangement is part of the installation and not an afterthought. Check the liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the gaskets and valves are chosen.

Which liquids, at what concentration, with which fitting

Each entry pairs a rated liquid with its concentration limit and the fitting and gasket to order alongside the tank. The full rating sits on the linked page and in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic Acid at 60% (PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets)
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50%
• Calcium Chloride at 40%
• Ferric Chloride at 50%
• Ferric Sulfate at 60%
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20%
• Magnesium Chloride at 30%
• Potassium Carbonate at 50%
• Potassium Hydroxide (saturated)
• Sodium Carbonate at 30%, and
• Sodium Thiosulfate at 40% (all with PVC fittings and EPDM gaskets)
• Ethylene Glycol at 100% (PVC/EPDM)
• DEF at 32.5% (316 stainless fittings, EPDM) and
• Urea Solution at 50% (PP/PVC fittings, EPDM) - note that DEF is itself a 32.5% urea solution, so treat those as the same chemical family and pick the p
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid at 26% (PP/PVC fittings, Viton gaskets).A few entries on the chart do not list a concentration and should be confirmed by phone before you
• Polyaluminum Chloride (PVC/EPDM)
• Propylene Glycol (PP/316 stainless fittings, EPDM), and ozonated water up to 10 PPM (PVC/EPDM), which has no dedicated compatibility page yet.You may only r

Three hundred and fifteen pounds in a 141 inch package

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Nebraska is the origin state on the sheet, so the plains and the Midwest are the short lane and both coasts are the long ones. The freight class reads 400, a numeric class beside an LTL ship mode, and the sheet publishes no NMFC number. The package measures 64 inches by 64 inches by 141 inches at 315 pounds, which is a narrow, long shipment rather than a wide one, and it is the easier of the two shapes to get through a gate and the harder one to stand up in a confined space. Price the lane to 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, so nominate the machine and the person for that in advance rather than solving it on the tailgate. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is described here; agree the offload equipment and the delivery window with us before the truck is booked. Set, level and anchor the stand first. This sheet counts 4 tiedown lugs but no lifting lugs, so lift under the body and never off the manway, and keep the shell restrained from the moment it is vertical, because a narrow empty column takes wind long before anybody expects it to. Prove the installation with clean water rather than product: hold the 12,510 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge in that order, and leave it standing full overnight. Check the anchor bolts and any strap again a week later, because ground settles under a new load and a narrow footprint shows it sooner than a wide one. Put the tank's part number on the maintenance log the day it lands; five years on, nobody remembers which shell it is.