Snyder Industries 300 Gallon 45 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Viscous Liquid Hopper Tank with Stand

What the stand puts under it and what the room has to allow

The 385 pounds empty on this sheet is the first clue to where this thing goes, because a 300 gallon poly tank does not weigh that on its own. The structure is part of the product, and the practical consequence is that the item arrives ready to stand on a floor rather than waiting on a fabrication. What the sheet does not give is any dimension for that structure, so treat 68 inches as the height of the assembly as listed and confirm the under-cone clearance against the part before you design the pipework or choose the receiving container. That clearance is the number that decides how this tank is used day to day: a valve, a hose, a drum, a pail or a pump inlet has to fit beneath the discharge, and a stand that puts the outlet at knee height is a different tool from one that puts it at bench height. Underneath the whole assembly you want flat, continuous, level support taking the full 50 by 45 inch plan, and a surface that will not creep under a point load. The sheet gives 2,502 pounds of water and 3,753 pounds at the rating, and on a stand that load does not spread; it concentrates at the feet. On a mezzanine, a raised platform or an older slab, that is a question to ask before the tank is delivered, and the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks sets out the framework and its boundary. Height is the other constraint and it is a friendly one here. Sixty-eight inches is under six feet, so this goes under a standard door header on a pallet truck and under almost any plant ceiling with room to open the lid above it. Check the headroom you need to fill it as well as the headroom the tank occupies, because a 12 inch lid at 68 inches wants a clear arm's length above it. Size the batch honestly in the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide; a viscous product that is warmed, stirred or recirculated needs headroom that a quiet stored liquid does not. For the wider case on this shape, the buyer's guide to the 300 gallon cone bottom with poly stand goes through the trade-offs in order.

A dry bin, a fifteen degree tank and a thirty degree tank

Read the second row carefully rather than quickly. SII-6370540N95402 is named as a dry hopper bin measured in cubic feet, and the sheet also puts 300 in its gallon column; it is a dry material product on almost the same envelope as this tank, 53 by 48 by 68 inches at 341 pounds, and we will not merge a dry duty and a liquid duty because two rows sit next to each other. If what you are storing is a powder, a pellet or a granule, that is the row to ask about. The other two rows are the angle argument. SII-5740101N45 holds 275 gallons on a 42 inch square plan 63 inches tall at 140 pounds, and its name gives 15 degrees: the shallowest common angle, a gentle slope that keeps the vessel short and light and works perfectly for a liquid that runs like water. SII-1560500N45 holds 325 gallons at 48 by 48 by 55 inches and 145 pounds with 30 degrees and a stand, and it is the shortest of the group by some way. Against both of those this tank is the heavy one at 385 pounds and the steep one at 45 degrees, and those two facts belong together. Steepness costs height and weight, and what it buys is a bottom that keeps emptying when the contents do not want to. If your liquid pours, there is no merit in buying the steepest cone on the sheet. If it is thick, thixotropic, loaded with solids or simply slow on a cold morning, there is no substitute for it, and the lighter, shallower tanks in this table will disappoint you every shift.

Neighboring size a better fit? Every row links to its own page; freight to your ZIP is quoted on each, or call 866-418-1777.

The discharge under a viscous load, and the opening on top

• The discharge: no outlet, no valve and no bulkhead is published on this sheet, so no size and no hardware is claimed. On a viscous duty this is the single most consequential decision on the whole installation, because a thick liquid through a small throat is slow at best and a plug at worst. Tell us the product, its viscosity at the temperature it will actually sit at, and what it discharges into, and we will confirm what this part number carries before anything is ordered.
• What hangs below: a valve, a reducer, a flexible connector or a pump inlet is supported on its own frame or off the stand, never off the cone. Vibration from a pump running against a thick liquid is precisely the load a moulded fitting is not there to take.
• Draining and the heel: a 45 degree wall is the steepest of the common angles and it is what gets a slow liquid to the point. Even so, run the tank down and look at what is left, because the honest measure of a hopper is the heel it leaves behind and not the angle on the drawing.
• Filling: a 12 inch lid is the only opening the sheet publishes. Twelve inches takes a fill hose, a wand, a jug, a lance for rinsing and a strainer basket; it does not take a person, so decide how this tank gets cleaned and inspected before you decide what goes in it.
• Air path and level: the sheet does not describe the lid as vented, and no sight arrangement, gauge or graduation appears on it. A closed vessel that a pump is pulling from is a wall under load, so settle the venting arrangement for your pump and your draw rate at order time.
• Limits: 120 F / 48 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.5, and no warranty term on this sheet.

Name the product and its temperature when you order. Viscosity is a temperature story more than a chemistry one, and a liquid that behaves at the end of a warm afternoon can be a different problem at seven the next morning.

Viscous product that has to clear the bottom every time

Three hundred gallons on a steep cone with its own stand is bought where the liquid is the difficulty rather than the volume: adhesives, resins and coatings held between deliveries, ink, dye and pigment concentrate at a print or textile plant, syrup, molasses, honey and concentrate in food production, grease, gear oil and lubricant blending, polymer and flocculant solution at a treatment works, and slurry or suspension holding that would settle solid in a flat-bottomed vessel. What those jobs share is that the contents do not help you. They cling, they set up when they sit, they carry solids that drop out overnight, and they punish a shallow cone and a narrow throat. The second thing they share is that the product is usually worth real money per gallon, which is the honest commercial case for a steep hopper: what stays in the tank at a changeover is stock you paid for and now have to dispose of. If your people are scraping a vessel out or writing off a heel every batch, the cone angle is the fix and the procedure is not.

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 (60%)
• Aluminum Sulfate (50%)
• Calcium Chloride (40%)
• DEF (32.5%)
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%)
• Magnesium Chloride (30%)
• Sodium Carbonate (30%)
• Urea Solution (50%), and Ozonated Water (up to 10 PPM).Most of these pair with PVC or PP fittings and EPDM gaskets; Urea takes PP/PVC with EPDM, Ozonated
• Sulfuric Acid (98%, CPVC fittings and Viton gaskets)
• Ferric Chloride (50%)
• Hydrochloric Acid (37%)
• Hydrogen Peroxide (50%)
• Phosphoric Acid (85%), and
• Sodium Hypochlorite (
• Peracetic Acid (30%) needs 316SS fittings with Aflas.Every one of these requires a higher 1.5 specific gravity tank, not this one.For those chemicals, ste

Lincoln, Nebraska, three hundred and eighty-five pounds, palletised

This assembly is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the sheet lists Nebraska as the state it ships from, a central lane into the plains and the Midwest and a planned one to either coast. The freight class is LTL under NMFC 156600-04, and it ships at 50 by 45 by 68 inches. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. At 385 pounds this is a forklift or pallet truck item, not a two-person lift, so have the machine on site the day it is booked in and take it under the base rather than round the body. It is also top-heavy on a narrow plan once it is off the pallet, so move it slowly, keep it upright and do not walk it across a rough yard on a hand truck. Set it on its final, level support and check the stand is bearing evenly on all its feet before anything is connected. Fill it with clean water, hold the 2,502 pound load, and watch the discharge joint and the stand feet rather than the tank; the wall is rarely the thing that moves. Then drain it through the discharge and time it with water, because that time is the optimistic case and your real product will never beat it. Write that figure on the tank in paint marker so the next operator inherits the number instead of a guess. Once it is full and holding, leave it alone for a day before the plumbing goes on; a settled tank is a quiet one.