Snyder Industries 2000 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

Why the white 1.5 row and not the black or the heavier one

Four part numbers share this 90 by 90 by 102 inch shell and the sheet separates them in exactly two ways, so the choice is easier than the part numbers make it look. The first way is the colour field, and on this listing it reads Natural White. A translucent wall lets an operator stand on the floor and see roughly where the level sits in daylight, without an instrument, without a ladder and without opening anything. On a working blend tank that is a small thing that gets used twenty times a day, and it is the single best reason to take this row rather than one of the black ones. What you give up is light control: daylight reaches the contents through a translucent wall, which is a housekeeping question outdoors on water-based product and no question at all indoors. The second way the sheet separates the four is weight, 325 pounds here and 400 pounds on the heavier listing, and the rating that travels with it. This row carries a specific gravity rating of 1.5 with 25,020 pounds of max contents, which covers water, treated water and the ordinary run of process liquid no heavier than water. The heavier listing is there for genuinely dense product and carries its own figures; the sheet explains the weight difference no further than the figure itself, so neither does this page. Match your liquid's weight per gallon to the rating and the row picks itself. After that it is structure, and structure is the part people under-build on a cone. This tank has no flat floor, 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, load or material appears here. It has to carry 325 pounds of empty tank, 16,680 pounds of water and 25,020 pounds at the rating through a few feet inside a 90 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 stand against the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix before either is ordered.

The 2000 quad, a 1650 below it and a 2500 above

The first four rows are one shell listed four times at 2,000 gallons, 90 inches across and 102 inches tall, separated by empty weight and by the name printed on each: 325 pounds on this listing and two others, 400 pounds on the fourth. That is what the sheet gives and this page adds nothing to it. The two rows underneath are where a real decision lives. 1910000N42 holds 1,650 gallons on an 86 inch circle at 94 inches, so it is both narrower and shorter, and it is the honest answer when the batch you actually run is smaller than the round number somebody wrote in the specification. 5110000N40 holds 2,500 gallons on this same 90 inch circle at 125 inches, so it buys 500 more gallons out of height alone with no change to the footprint, the pad or the aisle. That last point is worth pausing on. Where the circle stays the same, moving up a size is a drawing change and not a civils change, so if there is any chance the duty grows, measure the headroom now and keep the option. Where the circle changes, as it does on the 1650 row, the pad, the bund and the stand all change with it. Decide the circle first and the gallons second; it is the cheaper order to work in.

Need the taller or the wider one? Every row links to its page with freight to your ZIP on each; 866-418-1777 will check the ceiling and the pad.

An 18 inch vented manway, a 30 degree cone and eight lifting lugs

• The vent, first: it arrives as part of the 18 inch threaded vented manway on this sheet rather than as a separate item. That air path is what keeps the wall out of trouble while a pump draws the tank down, so keep it clear, look at it every time the tank is opened, and never blank, wrap or tape it to control an odour. It is the cheapest fitting on the vessel and the one whose failure costs the most.
• The manway itself: 18 inches, threaded, at the top of 102 inches of shell plus the stand. The sheet counts ladder lugs on the shell, so the access arrangement can be drawn against the tank rather than improvised around it, and the fill line still belongs at a coupling at working level rather than in somebody's hands at the top.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid. That names an opening and not a discharge, and it is printed here exactly as it reads rather than turned into a pipe size. No outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published or claimed. Give 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, which keeps a free-flowing liquid moving toward one point and will hold on to anything that packs or consolidates. Carry 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, because everything at the low point holds up the column above it and the sheet allows that column to reach 25,020 pounds.
• What else the sheet dimensions: 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs and 1 flange line. The lifting lugs are the difference between a planned lift and an improvised one, and the tiedown lugs are what the carrier looks for.
• Inlet, lid size, warranty and NMFC: none of the four is published and none is claimed. Published: a specific gravity rating of 1.5, 16,680 pounds of water at 2,000 gallons, 25,020 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

Even a translucent wall only tells you so much in poor light or from the wrong side of a building, so read the level gauge selection guide for chemical service before choosing an instrument, and because an inspector reads the outside of a bulk vessel and never the purchase order, settle the marking with the tank label and signage guide while the tank is still on order. Where it stands over a surface that would have to be recovered after a release, the Captor containment comparison is the place to start that question.

Batch make-up where an operator wants to see the level

Two thousand gallons is the size a lot of operations settle on once they have stopped guessing: big enough to take a bulk drop or a week of production, small enough to empty and wash without turning it into a project. Polymer and coagulant make-up at a water or wastewater works, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer, batch preparation and intermediate holding in manufacturing, food and beverage duty where the vessel is cleaned between products, wash and rinse systems emptied between runs, and day tank duty feeding a pump at a steady rate. The 30 degree cone is what makes every one of those work at the changeover, because nothing settles into a corner the vessel cannot reach, and at 2,000 gallons a residual layer on a flat floor is a disposal ticket rather than a nuisance. The natural white wall is the reason to take this row specifically: an operator running a blend checks the level a dozen times a shift, and being able to do it from the floor in daylight is worth more day to day than any specification line. The caution that goes with a translucent wall is light reaching the contents, which matters on water-based product standing outdoors and hardly at all inside a building. The other honest caution is the shape: 102 inches of liquid on a 90 inch circle stratifies more readily than a wide shallow vessel, so plan the draw point and the mixing arrangement together. Look your liquid up in our chemical compatibility reference before the trim is specified.

Chemical service ratings

The resin is rated for the liquids below at the concentrations shown; the fitting and gasket called out are the ones to order with the tank. Verify the exact service on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• DEF at 32.5 percent needs 316 stainless fittings (EPDM gaskets), while Acetic Acid at 60 percent and
• Urea Solution at 50 percent both call for PP/PVC fittings (EPDM gaskets) - do not default-order PVC for those services.The rest run on PVC fittings with
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50 percent
• Calcium Chloride at 40 percent
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20 percent
• Magnesium Chloride at 30 percent, and
• Sodium Carbonate at 30 percent.Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM also runs on PVC and EPDM; there is no dedicated detail page for it, so confirm your ozone exposu
• acetic acid page.Always confirm against the OEM chemical-resistance chart for your exact concentration and operating temperature, since both shift the rati
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (which also needs Viton gaskets rather than EPDM)
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol (which calls for PP/316SS fittings rather than PVC), and
• Sodium Thiosulfate all of which need a 1.5 SG-rated tank.The most expensive mistake on a cone tank is matching the resin and SG to the wrong chemical, so ver

Three hundred and twenty-five pounds out of Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska is the moulding plant and the sheet gives Nebraska as the state it ships from, so lane cost falls out of how far you sit from the middle of the country. The freight class reads 400, a numeric class beside an LTL ship mode, and no NMFC number is published. The package is 90 inches by 90 inches by 102 inches at 325 pounds, a light tank in a large envelope, which is why a shipment like this prices on the room it takes rather than on the scale ticket. Put your own ZIP into the freight cost estimator for the lane figure; 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 before the truck is booked rather than working it out on the tailgate. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is described here; agree the offload equipment and the window with us in advance. Set, level and anchor the stand first, because a cone bottom tank has nowhere sensible to wait while a foundation cures. Lift by the 8 lifting lugs the sheet counts, never by the manway, and keep the tank restrained from the moment it stands upright. Then prove the installation with clean water rather than product: hold the 16,680 pound load, walk the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge with a torch, and leave it standing full overnight before anything is connected. Write the outlet fitting size and material on the site plan while the tape is still out, because the replacement gets ordered by those two words and nobody wants to climb for them twice. A strap that is checked once a season is a strap that holds; put it on the same calendar as the gutters.