Snyder Industries 1600 Gallon XLPE Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank

White or black, and why the sheet changes nothing else

Four part numbers share this shell and the sheet gives every one of them the same figures: 1,600 gallons, 95 inches across, 72 inches tall, 277 pounds empty, a specific gravity rating of 1.9 and 25,354 pounds of max contents. The colour field is the only thing that moves. That makes this an unusually easy family to buy from, because there is no rating trade-off buried in it and no weight to reconcile; you are choosing what daylight does to your contents and nothing else. This listing is the natural white one. A translucent wall lets an operator standing on the floor see roughly where the level sits in daylight, without an instrument and without climbing, and on a tank only 72 inches tall that eyeball reading is genuinely usable rather than theoretical. The black listing in the same family does the opposite and suits product that reacts to light or a tank standing in the open. Neither is better; they answer different questions and the sheet prices them as separate part numbers. What makes the whole family interesting is the shape. At 95 inches across and 72 inches tall this is a wide, squat vessel, so the shell itself is around head height before a stand goes under it, the lift is short and the centre of gravity is low. That is the argument for this tank over a narrow column of similar volume, and it is the argument that wins under a low roof. The structure is still the part that gets under-built. 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 the support is a separate item and no stand height, rated load or material appears on this page. It has to carry 277 pounds of empty tank, 13,344 pounds of water and up to 25,354 pounds at the rating through a few stand feet inside a 95 inch circle rather than across a slab. Fix 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. The long read on this capacity, support included, is the complete buyer's guide to a 1600 gallon cone bottom tank with a poly stand.

Four 1600s, a 1500 column and a 1650 beside them

The top four rows are the same tank in four colour fields, which is rare in this range and makes the table easy to read. The rows that matter are the two underneath, because they hold almost the same volume in shapes that could not be more different. 5010000N48 puts 1,500 gallons on a 64 inch circle at 141 inches: a narrow column, a small footprint and a tall lift. This tank puts 1,600 gallons on a 95 inch circle at 72 inches: a wide, low shell that needs floor and hardly any headroom. 1910000N42 sits between them at 1,650 gallons on an 86 inch circle at 94 inches. Those three are the real choice at this capacity, and the building decides it rather than the specification. Measure the lowest fixed thing over the spot, measure the floor you can actually give up, and the part number follows. Two practical notes people learn late. On the wide shell everything is closer to the ground, so service, access and the delivery lift are all easier, and a low centre of gravity on the stand is worth something outdoors. On the narrow column the footprint is small enough to fit a plant room aisle, but the finished height with a stand under it is a different conversation with the roof. Where the crosslinked wall itself is the question rather than the shape, our read on XLPE against HDPE for chemistry duty sets out the duties where crosslinking changes the answer and the duties where it does not.

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The manway on a six foot shell, and what is not dimensioned

• The manway and its vent: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, with the vent arriving as part of it rather than as a separate specification. That air path is what protects the wall while a pump draws the tank down, so keep it clear, check it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank, paint or tape it. On a 72 inch shell it is also the one opening you can reach without a ladder once the stand height is known.
• Working height: the lid sits at the top of 72 inches of shell plus the stand, which on this family often puts it at a genuinely workable height rather than a working-at-height job. Plan the access with the structure, because this sheet counts no ladder lugs and no structural attachments at all, so nothing should be hung off the shell.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid on this sheet. That names an opening and not a discharge, and we print the field exactly as it reads rather than turning it into a pipe size. No outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published or claimed. Tell us the line size, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before anything is ordered.
• Under the cone: the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe belong on their own steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint so pump vibration stays out of the wall. With up to 25,354 pounds of rated contents above it, the low point of a full vessel is the wrong place for dead weight.
• The cone angle: this sheet publishes none and the product name carries none, so none is stated here and none should be read off a photograph. If the way your product drains decides the purchase, ask us to confirm the geometry against the part number.
• Structural detail, inlet, lid size, warranty and NMFC: this sheet counts no lugs and no flange lines and publishes none of the other four, and nothing is claimed for them. Published: a specific gravity rating of 1.9, 13,344 pounds of water at 1,600 gallons, 25,354 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

Where the vessel stands over ground, a floor or a drain that would have to be recovered after a release, containment is a separate question from the tank: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained polyethylene route against the alternatives, and on a dense load that comparison belongs before the pad is poured.

Heavy blends under a low roof

The combination that sells this listing is a dense product and a building that cannot take height. A specific gravity rating of 1.9 with 25,354 pounds of max contents against 13,344 pounds of water means you can fill this vessel with something appreciably heavier than water instead of running a lighter tank part full, and 72 inches of shell means it goes where a column does not. Concentrated mineral and salt solutions in a low process building, liquid fertiliser and crop protection concentrates at an agricultural retailer, treatment chemistry at working strength, brines, spent liquor at a metals plant, mineral and wash plant slurry, and batch make-up where the vessel changes product and cannot afford to leave a heel behind. The cone is what makes the last of those work: on a flat floor a dense residue is heavier, more valuable and more expensive to dispose of than a light one, so full-drain geometry pays back faster at high specific gravity than at low. The natural white wall adds the daily convenience of reading roughly where the level sits without an instrument, which on a squat tank you can do from the floor. Two honest cautions. The service limit is 100 F / 37 C, which is worth respecting on a hot fill. And a translucent wall lets daylight into water-based product, which is a housekeeping question outdoors. Check your liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the trim is specified.

Compatibility list

Liquids the maker rates this resin for, with concentration limits and the wetted fitting and gasket to specify. Confirm your own concentration and temperature on the chemical page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• details ); Aluminum Sulfate (50%), PVC fittings, EPDM (
• details ); Calcium Chloride (40%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); DEF (32.5%) with 316 stainless fittings and EPDM (
• details ); Ethylene Glycol (100%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Ferric Chloride (50%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Ferric Sulfate (60%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Ferrous Sulfate (20%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Hydrofluosilicic Acid (26%) with PP or PVC fittings and Viton gaskets (
• details ); Magnesium Chloride (30%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Polyaluminum Chloride, PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Potassium Carbonate (50%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Potassium Hydroxide (saturated), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Propylene Glycol with PP or 316 stainless fittings and EPDM (
• details ); Sodium Carbonate (30%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Sodium Thiosulfate (40%), PVC, EPDM (
• details ); Urea Solution (50%) with PP or PVC fittings and EPDM (
• details ); and Ozonated Water (up to 10 PPM), PVC, EPDM.Note the exceptions: Hydrofluosilicic Acid calls for Viton rather than EPDM, DEF calls for

Two hundred and seventy-seven pounds out of Marked Tree

This tank is moulded at Marked Tree, Arkansas, and the sheet gives Arkansas as the state it ships from, which puts the mid-South and the lower Midwest on the short lane. That is a different origin from much of this family, so check it against your own ZIP before you compare part numbers, because on a light bulky tank the lane is a real part of the decision rather than a rounding error. The freight class reads 400, a numeric class beside an LTL ship mode, and no NMFC number is published. The package measures 95 inches by 95 inches by 72 inches at 277 pounds, which is the lightest tank in this batch inside a wide envelope, so it prices on the space it occupies rather than on the scale ticket. Run your ZIP through the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. A squat shell is the easier shape to handle at the kerb and the harder one to turn in a narrow yard, so give it a wide clear circle of ground rather than a tight corner. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is stated here; agree the offload arrangement and the window with us before the truck is booked. Set, level and anchor the stand first. This sheet counts no lifting lugs, so do not assume any: sling under the body, never off the manway, and keep the tank restrained once it is upright. Commission with clean water rather than product, hold the 13,344 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint and the stand feet in daylight, and leave it standing full overnight. Then walk the pad again after the first hard rain, because new ground settles under a new load and the edge of the pad is where that shows first. Check the strap tension a week after the first fill; a tank settles a little, and the strap that was tight is loose.