Snyder Industries 2000 Gallon Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank

The shortest lane out of Lincoln in this family

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska given as the state it ships from, and of everything in this family it is the easiest load to move. At 90 inches by 90 inches by 102 inches and 400 pounds it is the smallest shipment on the list, and on moulded goods the shipment is what the freight actually prices. Central and Midwestern buyers get a short lane on a compact package; coastal buyers should still run the number first, but this is the size where the answer is least likely to change the plan. A shorter shipment is also a kinder one on arrival: it goes through a gate, turns in a tight yard and stands up with less machine than a twelve foot shell needs, and on a site with limited access that is worth more than a specification line. What it still needs is a stand, and this is the point every cone bottom buyer has to take seriously. The vessel has no flat bottom, cannot rest on a floor and has to be carried, and this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern. The support is a separate item on its own drawing and lead time, and no stand height, rated load or stand material is stated on this page because the sheet states none. Specify it with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and let us confirm the fit against this part number. The pad under it carries 400 pounds of empty tank, 16,680 pounds of water and 31,692 pounds at the rating through stand feet inside a 90 inch circle, so it is designed ground with a designed bearing area rather than a slab poured to suit a drawing. Above it, the finished height is the stand plus 102 inches plus clearance over the manway, and underneath it the cone still needs room to discharge into something. Settle the volume before any of that with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Three 2000s, a 1650 below and a 2500 above

Four rows are the identical 2,000 gallon shell at 90 by 102 inches, separated on the sheet by empty weight and by the name printed on each: 400 pounds on this listing and on 5070000N48, 325 pounds on the two other XLPE listings. The sheet explains none of that and this page prints the figures rather than theorising. The reason to take this one is the rating. A specific gravity rating of 1.9 with 31,692 pounds of max contents is what a product denser than water needs, and it is the only thing that separates this listing from its neighbours in any way you can act on. If your liquid is no heavier than water, one of the lighter listings does the job and costs less to buy. The two outer rows change the size. 1910000N42 is the only row on a different circle, 1,650 gallons on an 86 inch circle at 94 inches and 300 pounds, which is the smallest and lowest option here and the one to look at when both the floor and the ceiling are tight. 5110000N40 goes the other way with 2,500 gallons at 125 inches on this same 90 inch circle, so it buys a bigger batch purely with height and leaves the pad, the bund and the aisle untouched. That is the useful thing about this family: once the circle is fixed, capacity is a ceiling question and not a site question, and most buyers get further by measuring the room than by arguing about gallons.

Comparing against another maker? Send the competing spec to 866-418-1777 or a quote request and we will show the differences honestly.

The manway at the top of a hundred and two inches

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, and it is the only opening this sheet names. At 102 inches plus the stand it is the lowest top opening in this family, which makes access easier than most, but not easy: draw the platform or fixed ladder and the fall protection with the structure, and land the fill at a coupling at working level rather than up top.
• The vent: it arrives with that manway on this sheet rather than separately. When a pump draws off the bottom of a full tank the air path is what protects the wall, so keep it clear, check it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank or tape it to control an odour.
• Inlet: none published on this sheet. No fill fitting, no size and no position is given, so nothing is claimed and the fill route is designed. Size the air path to the faster of your fill rate and your draw rate.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid, an opening rather than a discharge. That is printed as it reads with nothing read into it: no outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve. Tell us the line size, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• The cone: published at 30 degrees. Below it, the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe are carried on steelwork off the stand with a flexible connector at the first joint, never on the tank, because 31,692 pounds of rated contents above a hanging valve is the wrong arrangement at any size.
• What else the sheet gives: 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs, ladder lugs and 1 flange line; a specific gravity rating of 1.9, 16,680 pounds of water at 2,000 gallons and 100 F / 37 C. No warranty term and no NMFC number are published.

Three things are cheaper to settle now than later. How the level is read, because even a short column gives a confident wrong number to the wrong instrument: the level gauge selection guide for chemical service compares the technologies on their failure modes. How the tank is marked, because a bulk vessel is read by people who did not order it: the tank label and signage guide reconciles the marking schemes on one vessel. And what happens underneath after a release: the Captor containment comparison is where that starts.

Small dense batches that cannot leave a heel

Two thousand gallons at the 1.9 rating is a working vessel rather than a storage drum, and it goes where the batch is small, the product is heavy and the bottom of the tank is where the job is done. Concentrated mineral and salt solutions, spent acid and pickling liquor in a metals plant, thickened sludge and settled solids at a treatment works, heavy liquid fertiliser and crop input blends at an agricultural retailer, mineral and wash plant slurry, and chemical batch make-up where the vessel changes product regularly. On a flat bottomed tank each of those changeovers leaves a layer behind, and at this size a layer is a disposal ticket and a contamination risk rather than an inconvenience. The cone takes that argument away by giving the vessel one low point. Being the smallest in the family helps in a second way that nobody puts on a specification: a shorter tank is easier to reach, easier to clean, easier to inspect and easier to stand up, and those add up over years of use. Name your product when you enquire and check it in our chemical compatibility reference first, because the gasket and fitting answer follows the chemistry and not the vessel.

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, EPDM)
• Calcium Chloride (40%, PVC, EPDM)
• DEF (32.5%, 316SS, EPDM)
• Ethylene Glycol (100%, PVC, EPDM)
• Ferric Chloride (50%, PVC, EPDM)
• Ferric Sulfate (60%, PVC, EPDM)
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%, PVC, EPDM)
• Hydrochloric Acid (37%, PVC, Viton)
• Hydrofluoric Acid (48%, PP/PVC, Viton)
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (26%, PP/PVC, Viton)
• Hydrogen Peroxide (50%, PVC, Viton)
• Magnesium Chloride (30%, PVC, EPDM)
• Peracetic Acid (30%, 316SS, Aflas)
• Phosphoric Acid (85%, PVC, Viton)
• Polyaluminum Chloride (PVC, EPDM)
• Potassium Carbonate (50%, PVC, EPDM)
• Potassium Hydroxide (saturated, PVC, EPDM)
• Propylene Glycol (PP/316SS, EPDM)
• Sodium Bisulfate (PVC/PP, EPDM)
• Sodium Bisulfite (PVC/PP, EPDM)
• Sodium Carbonate (30%, PVC, EPDM)
• Sodium Hypochlorite (under 16.5%, PVC, Viton)
• Sodium Thiosulfate (40%, PVC, EPDM)
• Sulfuric Acid (98%, CPVC, Viton)
• Urea Solution (50%, PP/PVC, EPDM)
• Zinc Orthophosphate (PP/316SS, EPDM), and Ozonated Water (up to 10 PPM, PVC, EPDM - no dedicated page yet, see the full database). Match the fitting and gask

Four hundred pounds, and the stand that has to be there first

Lincoln, Nebraska is the plant, and Nebraska is the origin state the sheet gives. The freight class reads 400, a numeric class rather than a mode, and the sheet publishes no NMFC number. The shipping size is 90 inches by 90 inches by 102 inches at 400 pounds, the smallest and lightest package in this family, and it travels lying down. 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 stated here; agree the offload equipment and the window with us before the truck is booked, because a small shipment still needs a machine to stand it up. Everything about the delivery goes better if the stand is already there. Set it, level it, anchor it and check it with a straight edge before the trailer arrives, because a cone bottom tank cannot be put down on its bottom to wait, and a site that is not ready turns a simple offload into a day of standing around. Lift under the body or by the lifting lugs the sheet lists, never by the manway, and keep the tank restrained the moment it is upright. Prove the installation with clean water before product: hold the 16,680 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint and the stand feet in daylight, and leave it standing full overnight. Then keep the seasonal habit that costs nothing and saves the tank: put the strap check, the vent check and a walk round the pad on the same calendar as the gutters, and this vessel will outlast the paperwork that came with it. Save the pallet; a tank that ever has to move again is easier to move on it.