Snyder Industries 2500 Gallon Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank

Moulded in California: the western lane for a short wide load

This tank is made at Chowchilla, California, and the sheet gives California as the state it ships from, which is worth knowing before anything else because it is the opposite corner of the country from most of the cone bottom tanks in this family. For a buyer in the west that is the short lane and a real advantage; for a buyer east of the mountains it is a long haul on a shipment that takes room rather than weight, and it should be priced early rather than at the end of the specification. The freight shape here is unusual in a helpful way: at 104 inches tall the shipment is shorter than the 125 inch tanks in this family, and a shorter shipment is an easier shipment on almost every part of the route, from the yard gate to the machine that stands it up. What you give back is floor, because the circle is 95 inches instead of 90. Then plan the support, which is the part of a cone installation that gets underestimated everywhere. A cone bottom vessel has no flat bottom and cannot stand on its own floor, and this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern. The stand is a separate item, on its own drawing with its own lead time, and no stand height, rated load or stand material appears on this page because none appears on the sheet. Settle it with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix before a part number is fixed, and confirm the fit with us rather than assuming one. The pad under it carries 547 pounds of empty tank, 20,850 pounds of water and 39,615 pounds at the rating through the stand feet inside a 95 inch circle, so the ground is designed with a bearing area at each foot. Above it, your total is the stand plus 104 inches plus the clearance a person needs at the manway. Size the volume first with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The wide 2500 against the narrow one

There are two ways to hold 2,500 gallons in this family and the first two rows show both. This tank does it on a 95 inch circle at 104 inches. The 5110000 listings do it on a 90 inch circle at 125 inches. That is the entire argument, and a tape measure settles it faster than a specification does: if the ceiling, a duct run or a crane rail is the constraint, the shorter wider shell wins outright, and if the floor is the constraint, the narrow one does. The 5110000 rows also carry their own weights, 375 pounds on two of them and 400 pounds on 5110000N48, with no account of the difference on the sheet and none invented here. Beyond the shape, the reason to take this listing rather than another is the rating. At a specific gravity rating of 1.9 with 39,615 pounds of max contents it covers product heavier than water, which is a genuine requirement for some duties and money wasted on others; if your liquid is no heavier than water, take a listing rated for what you actually have. The last two rows are the capacity ladder on the narrow circle: 2,000 gallons at 102 inches and 325 pounds below, 2,600 gallons at 139 inches and 500 pounds above. Both of these longer reads work through the rest of it: the buyer's guide at this capacity with a shallower cone and the 30 degree guide covering the poly stand question.

Torn between two rows? Call 866-418-1777 with the liquid and the ceiling height, or ask for a quote on both and compare the freight.

The lid is the only opening the sheet names

• The fill opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, and it is the only opening this sheet names anywhere. Everything about filling this tank is designed around it. Bring the line to a coupling at working level and land it into the manway rather than asking anyone to carry a hose up a ladder, and draw the platform and fall protection with the structure instead of after it.
• The vent: it comes with that manway on this sheet rather than as a separate item. On a tank being pumped down the air path is the wall's protection, so keep it clear, inspect it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank, tape or wrap it to control a smell.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid, which names an opening and not a discharge. We print the field exactly as it reads and claim nothing further: no outlet size, no thread, no bulkhead, 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 angle: this sheet publishes none and the product name carries none, so none is stated here. We are not going to read an angle off a photograph or borrow one from a neighbouring listing. If drainage behaviour decides your purchase, ask us to confirm the geometry against the part number.
• Below the cone: the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe belong on steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint. At 39,615 pounds of rated contents, the low point of a full vessel is the wrong place to hang weight.
• Inlet, warranty, NMFC and lug detail: none published on this sheet, and none claimed. Ratings are a specific gravity of 1.9, 20,850 pounds of water at 2,500 gallons, 39,615 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

If the tank will stand over ground, a floor or a drain that would have to be recovered after a release, start the containment question separately from the tank question: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained route against the alternatives.

Heavy solutions under a low roof

Two constraints have to be true at once for this to be the right tank, and when they are, nothing else in the family comes close. The product is denser than water, and the building is short. Concentrated mineral and salt solutions in a process bay, 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, wash plant and mineral slurry duty, and batch make-up where the vessel changes product and cannot leave a heel behind. The cone earns its keep at the changeover rather than during the run: the vessel drains toward one point instead of holding a layer on a floor, and at 2,500 gallons a layer is a disposal ticket rather than a nuisance. The squat shape adds a second, quieter benefit. A wide shallow vessel holds a blend together better than a tall narrow one, so a product that wants to settle gives less trouble here than in the 125 inch tanks listed beside it. Check your own liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the fittings are specified, because the product decides the gasket and the valve.

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 at 60% (PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets)
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50% (PVC, EPDM)
• Calcium Chloride at 40% (PVC, EPDM)
• DEF at 32.5% (316SS, EPDM)
• Ethylene Glycol at 100% (PVC, EPDM)
• Ferric Chloride at 50% (PVC, EPDM)
• Ferric Sulfate at 60% (PVC, EPDM)
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20% (PVC, EPDM)
• Hydrochloric Acid at 37% (PVC, Viton)
• Hydrofluoric Acid at 48% (PP/PVC, Viton)
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid at 26% (PP/PVC, Viton)
• Hydrogen Peroxide at 50% (PVC, Viton)
• Magnesium Chloride at 30% (PVC, EPDM)
• Peracetic Acid at 30% (316SS, Aflas)
• Phosphoric Acid at 85% (PVC, Viton)
• Polyaluminum Chloride (concentration not specified on the OEM chart, confirm your exact strength; PVC, EPDM)
• Potassium Carbonate at 50% (PVC, EPDM)
• Potassium Hydroxide saturated (PVC, EPDM)
• Propylene Glycol (concentration not specified, confirm strength; PP/316SS, EPDM)
• Sodium Bisulfate (concentration not specified, confirm strength; PVC/PP, EPDM)
• Sodium Bisulfite (concentration not specified, confirm strength; PVC/PP, EPDM)
• Sodium Carbonate at 30% (PVC, EPDM)
• Sodium Hypochlorite below 16.5% (PVC, Viton)
• Sodium Thiosulfate at 40% (PVC, EPDM)
• Sulfuric Acid at 98% (CPVC, Viton)
• Urea Solution at 50% (PP/PVC, EPDM)
• Zinc Orthophosphate (concentration not specified, confirm strength; PP/316SS, EPDM), and Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM (PVC, EPDM; no dedicated page yet, see the

Five hundred and forty-seven pounds, class 300, Chowchilla

The freight class on this sheet reads 300, a numeric class rather than a mode, and no NMFC number is published. The shipping size measures 95 inches by 95 inches by 104 inches at 547 pounds and leaves Chowchilla, California, with California given as the origin state. Price the lane to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator before you settle the shape argument; the listed price is before freight. On a light, bulky moulded tank the lane can matter more than the specification does, and a western plant makes this an easy buy in the west and a considered one elsewhere. It travels lying down and somebody stands it up at your end, and a wide shipment wants a clear circle of ground to be turned in rather than a corner of the yard. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is stated here; agree the offload equipment and the window with us before the truck is booked. Have the stand set, levelled and anchored first. Sling under the body, never by the manway or the top of the cone, and keep the tank restrained from the moment it is upright. Then prove the whole installation with clean water rather than product: hold the 20,850 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the ground around the pad in daylight, and leave it standing full overnight. Check the anchor bolts and the strap tension again a week after the first fill, because new ground settles a little under a new load and the fixing that was tight on day one is the one that is loose on day eight. The first fill is the only cheap time to find a problem, so do it in daylight with someone watching the base.