Snyder Industries 1600 Gallon XLPE Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank

Choosing the dark shell in a family that differs by colour alone

Everything measurable on this sheet is shared with the other three listings on the shell. Same 1,600 gallons, same 95 inch circle, same 72 inches of height, same 277 pounds empty, same specific gravity rating of 1.9 and the same 25,354 pounds of max contents against 13,344 pounds of water. The colour field is the only field that changes, and on this row it reads Black. So the decision is a single clean question rather than a trade-off: should daylight reach what is inside the tank? Say no when the tank stands outdoors on a pad, when the product is water-based and a translucent shell would start a growth cycle with a cleaning job attached every season, when the product itself degrades in light, or when nobody outside the fence needs to see the level. Say yes, and take the translucent listing instead, when an operator wants to read the level from the floor by eye. What you lose here is exactly that: with a black wall the level is read by instrument or not at all, so the instrument belongs in the same order as the tank rather than in next year's budget. What the family shares is the shape, and the shape is the reason this group exists. Ninety-five inches across and 72 inches tall is a wide, low vessel: short lift, low centre of gravity on the stand, and a shell that clears roof lines a column of the same volume never will. The structure is still separate and still the part people under-build. A cone 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 no stand height, rated load or material is stated 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 feet inside a 95 inch circle rather than across a slab. 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 either piece is ordered.

The 95 inch 1600 group and the two capacities either side

Read this table by shape rather than by volume, because the three capacities in it are close enough that the shape is the whole decision. This shell puts 1,600 gallons into 72 inches of height on a 95 inch circle. 1910000N42 puts 1,650 gallons into 94 inches on an 86 inch circle, narrower and taller. 5010000N48 puts 1,500 gallons into 141 inches on a 64 inch circle, which is a genuinely narrow column and the answer when floor space is the thing you do not have. All three want a stand under them and all three arrive at a very different finished height once it is there. Measure to the lowest fixed obstruction over the spot before you look at gallons, because a tank that will not fit is not a saving at any price. The second practical difference is what happens in service. On this wide shell the lid, the fittings and the cone joint are all close to the ground, so inspection is a walk round rather than a climb, and that changes how often the inspection actually happens. On the narrow column everything is higher and the access arrangement becomes part of the purchase. Weight tells the same story quietly: 277 pounds here against 315 pounds on the column and 300 pounds on the 1650, which is the difference between a tank two people can steady and one nobody should try to. If the crosslinked wall itself is what you are weighing rather than the shape, our read on XLPE against HDPE for chemistry duty covers it, and the capacity has its own long-form treatment in the complete buyer's guide to a 1600 gallon cone bottom tank with a poly stand.

Want the certified one or the plain one? Call 866-418-1777 and say what the inspector asks for; or request a quote on the row you need.

Lid, vent and the outlet field on a squat cone

• The lid: an 18 inch threaded vented manway is the only opening this sheet dimensions, and on a 72 inch shell it is low enough that the fill, the inspection and the cleaning all happen at a sensible height once the stand is known. Everything else on this vessel is specified around it.
• The vent: it arrives with the manway rather than as a separate item, and it does structural work on a tank being pumped out, because a shell that cannot take air in takes the load in the wall instead. Keep it clear, inspect it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank or wrap it to control a smell.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid. That names an opening and not a discharge, and this page prints the field as it reads and asserts nothing further. No outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published. Give us the line size, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• What hangs below: the valve, any reducer and the first length of pipe go on their own steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint. The sheet allows the column above that joint to reach 25,354 pounds, which is not a load to hang plumbing from.
• The cone angle: no angle field is published on this sheet and the product name carries none, so none is stated. Ask us to confirm the geometry against the part number if drainage behaviour is what decides your purchase.
• Structural detail, inlet, lid size, warranty and NMFC: no lug count, no flange count and none of the other four appears on this sheet, and nothing is claimed. 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 service limit of 100 F / 37 C.

A black wall gives an operator no view of the contents at all, so the level instrument is a specification item on this listing rather than an afterthought, and choosing it well the first time costs less than retrofitting it later.

Dense liquid kept dark at 1,600 gallons

Two conditions bring buyers to this exact part number: the product is heavier than water, and it should not see daylight. The rating answers the first with 25,354 pounds of max contents against 13,344 pounds of water, so the vessel gets filled with product rather than with headroom. The black wall answers the second. Together they point at outdoor bulk storage at agricultural retail, concentrated crop inputs and treatment chemistry standing on a pad, brines and mineral solutions at a process plant, recovered and recycled process liquid at a manufacturing site, wash water systems living outside the building because there was no room inside it, and any batching duty where the vessel changes product and must not carry a heel forward. The cone is the quiet reason all of those work at this size, because a dense residue on a flat floor is heavier, more valuable and more of a disposal problem than a light one. The low shell is the practical reason: at 72 inches plus a stand, this tank fits under things and is worked on from the ground. Two limitations belong on the page rather than in a conversation later. The service limit is 100 F / 37 C, and a dark shell in strong sun is where that figure earns its keep. And with no view through the wall, running this tank without a level instrument is guessing. Check your liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the gaskets and valves are chosen.

Service list by chemical

One line per liquid the maker rates for this resin, with the concentration it is rated to and the fitting and gasket to order. Take your own concentration and temperature to the linked page or 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
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (26%) - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Magnesium Chloride (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM 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 Carbonate (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Thiosulfate (40%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Urea Solution (50%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets

Seventy-two inches tall on the trailer, class 400, Arkansas

Marked Tree, Arkansas is the moulding plant and the sheet gives Arkansas as the state it ships from, so the mid-South is the short lane and the far 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 95 inches by 95 inches by 72 inches at 277 pounds, and of the two shapes in this capacity range it is the wide one rather than the tall one, which changes what the delivery looks like: less height to stand up, more ground to turn it on. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is described here; settle the offload equipment and the window with us before the truck is booked rather than on the morning. Have the stand set, levelled and anchored before the trailer arrives, because there is nowhere sensible to park a cone bottom tank while concrete cures. This sheet counts no lifting lugs, so lift under the body and never off the manway, and restrain the shell as soon as it is upright. Commission with clean water before product: hold the 13,344 pound water load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge in that order, and leave it standing full overnight. A photograph of the tank standing full on day one, filed with the site paperwork, settles every later argument about whether something has moved. Keep one spare gasket for the outlet fitting on the shelf; it is the part that fails on a holiday.