Snyder Industries 2500 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

Lincoln to your yard, and what three hundred and seventy-five pounds costs to move

Start with the plant, because on a tank this light the lane is a larger share of the cost than most buyers expect. This one is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Nebraska is the origin state on the sheet, so the Midwest and the plains are the short haul and both coasts are the long one. The package is 90 inches by 90 inches by 125 inches at 375 pounds, which is the lightest tank on its own sheet inside one of the larger envelopes a carrier will see all week. Freight on a shape like that is bought with trailer length rather than payload, so the figure moves with distance and with how easily the lane fills, not with the scale ticket. Put your own ZIP through the freight cost estimator before you settle on a capacity, because at 2,500 gallons the difference between this shell and a taller one is sometimes smaller than the difference between two lanes. The plant also tells you something useful about the day it arrives. It comes lying down and it is stood up at your end, and on this sheet you are not guessing at the lift: it lists 8 lifting lugs, 4 tiedown lugs and ladder lugs, so the rigging can be drawn against the tank rather than improvised at the kerb. That is not true of every listing in this family and it is worth the paragraph. What is not on the sheet is the structure underneath. No stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern is published, and a cone bottom tank has no flat bottom to rest on, so the support is a separate item with its own drawing and lead time and this page gives no stand height, rated load or material for one. Set it, level it and anchor it before the truck is booked, working the fit out with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and a call to us. The pad beneath carries 375 pounds of empty tank, 20,850 pounds of water and up to 31,275 pounds of rated contents through a few feet inside a 90 inch circle, which is designed ground with a bearing area at each foot. Size the volume first with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 2500 group on the ninety inch circle, with a 2000 below it

The first four rows are one shell: 2,500 gallons on a 90 inch circle at 125 inches, four ways. Three of them are listed at 375 pounds and one at 400 pounds, and the sheet separates them by that weight and by the name it prints on each without explaining either, so nothing is explained here that the sheet does not explain. The figure that decides your purchase is the rating, and this listing carries a rating of 1.5 with 31,275 pounds of max contents against 20,850 pounds of water in the same 2,500 gallons. That covers water, treated water and the wide run of process liquids no heavier than water, which is most of what a cone bottom tank at this size actually holds. The 400 pound listing is the black one and carries its own higher figures for a denser duty; if your product is genuinely heavier than water, that is the row to price, and if it is not, this one is the honest buy rather than the cautious one. The reason to take this row in particular is the pairing of that rating with a natural white wall and a published 30 degree cone: a translucent shell an operator can read in daylight, over a cone angle the sheet actually states rather than one you have to ask about. The last two rows keep the same 90 inch circle, which means the pad, the bund and the aisle survive a change of mind. 5070000N40 drops to 2,000 gallons at 102 inches, nearly two feet shorter, which is the answer under a tight ceiling. 5100000N40 goes up to 2,600 gallons at 139 inches for a hundred more gallons and a foot more height. Two long reads cover this capacity: the 2,500 gallon cone bottom tank buyer's guide and the 2,500 gallon cone bottom guide covering a poly stand, which is the place to take the support question rather than this page.

Want us to check the fit? Send the site dimensions to 866-418-1777 or through a written quote request and we will confirm the tank, the pad and the freight.

The fill opening, the vent that comes with it, and the lugs the sheet counts

• The opening on top: an 18 inch threaded vented manway at 125 inches plus the stand. It is the fill point and the inspection point, and it is the only access this sheet publishes, so plan the platform or fixed ladder and the fall protection with the structure rather than after it. The sheet lists ladder lugs on the shell, which means the access can be drawn against the tank instead of invented around it.
• The vent: it arrives as part of the manway rather than as a separate specification. On a vessel being pumped out that vent is structural rather than optional, because a tank that cannot take air in takes the load in its wall instead. Keep it clear and never blank it.
• Filling: no inlet is published on this sheet, so the fill route is designed rather than assumed. Land the line at a coupling at working level and size the air path to the faster of the fill rate and the draw rate.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid. That names an opening and not a discharge, and we print it exactly as it reads rather than turning it into a pipe size. No outlet dimension, thread, bulkhead or valve is published or claimed. Tell us the line size, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what 5110000N40 carries before it is ordered.
• The cone: published at 30 degrees on this sheet, the middle of the common angles. That keeps a free-flowing liquid moving toward one point and will hold on to material that packs or consolidates. If your product settles hard, say so when you enquire and let us talk geometry rather than gallons.
• What else the sheet dimensions: 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs and 1 flange line. Plan the lift around the lifting lugs rather than around a sling position somebody guesses at the kerb. Not published, therefore not claimed: the inlet, the lid size, the warranty term and the NMFC number. Published ratings are a specific gravity of 1.5, 20,850 pounds of water at 2,500 gallons, 31,275 pounds of max contents and 100 F / 37 C.

Everything you hang at the bottom of a cone carries the column above it, so support the valve, any reducer and the first pipe run on steelwork off the stand rather than on the tank, and break the line with a flexible connector before the pump.

Settling and decanting where the last inches matter

A 30 degree cone on a 125 inch column at 2,500 gallons is a holding and settling vessel as much as a storage one, and that is the duty it keeps getting bought for. Wash water recovery where solids have to be dropped out before the liquid is reused, sludge holding at a small works, recovered process liquid waiting for a decision, coagulant and polymer make-up between deliveries, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer, and batch preparation in manufacturing where the vessel changes product and must not carry the last one forward. The geometry is doing the work in every one of those: solids travel a short horizontal distance and a long vertical one, and they end up at a single low point rather than spread across a floor. The natural white wall adds the thing an operator uses every shift, which is a rough level read from the ground in daylight without climbing, and on a settling duty being able to see where an interface sits is worth more than it is on plain storage. Three honest limits. The rating is 1.5, so denser product belongs on the heavier listing. The service limit is 100 F / 37 C. And a 30 degree cone is a sensible middle angle for a free-flowing product rather than a steep one for something that packs, so if your solids consolidate, that is a conversation to have before the order and not after. Check the liquid in our chemical compatibility reference first, because the gasket and valve answer comes from the product rather than from the vessel.

Liquids this resin is rated to store

These entries are the manufacturer's ratings for this resin, each with the concentration limit and the fitting and gasket to specify. Your concentration and temperature are confirmed on the chemical page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• acetic acid
• aluminum sulfate
• calcium chloride
• DEF
• ferrous sulfate
• magnesium chloride
• sodium carbonate and
• urea solution plus the full
• Ethylene glycol
• ferric chloride
• ferric sulfate
• hydrofluosilicic acid (which needs Viton gaskets, the only non-EPDM pairing in the chart)
• polyaluminum chloride
• potassium carbonate
• potassium hydroxide
• propylene glycol and
• sodium thiosulfate all need a higher-SG tank to stay within rating.Specify the 1.9 SG version for those rather than overloading this one.

The lightest tank in the family on one of the largest tickets

Three hundred and seventy-five pounds of tank inside a 90 by 90 by 125 inch shipped envelope is the whole story of this movement: class 400 beside an LTL ship mode, no NMFC number published, and a carrier charging for the deck it gives up rather than for the weight it carries. Price your own lane with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. It travels lying down. Standing it up is a planned operation and on this listing you have the sheet's own help for it: 8 lifting lugs and 4 tiedown lugs, so the rigging plan can be drawn rather than argued about on the tailgate. Even so, no crane, rigging, permit or escort detail is published on this sheet, so none is described here; agree the offload equipment and the delivery window with us before the truck is booked. The stand has to be set, levelled and anchored first, and the tank restrained from the moment it is upright. Then prove the 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 pad edge in that order, and leave it standing full overnight. Walk the pad again after the first hard rain, because a new load settles the ground beneath it and the edge of the pad is where that shows first. Note the pad height and the outlet height on the site plan while the tape is still out; the next pipe run will need both of them. A photo of the tank on its pad, full, on day one is worth keeping; it is the baseline every later inspection is compared against.