Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon 30 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank

A California mould point and a 95 inch circle on the trailer

Begin with the trailer, because on a tank this size the trailer decides more than the tank does. This one is moulded at Chowchilla, California, and the sheet lists California as the state it ships from. The freight class reads OVS, an oversize mode rather than a numeric class, and the sheet publishes no NMFC number at all. That combination means the movement is arranged: a route, a delivery window, an unloading plan and the machine standing on site when the trailer pulls in. For a buyer in California, the Southwest or the Pacific Northwest that is a short oversize lane and one of the better reasons to choose this part number over an eastern-moulded equivalent; for a buyer on the far side of the country it is a long one and it belongs in the comparison from the first conversation, not the last. Get the number with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Once it is on the ground, the shape governs. A cone bottom tank has no flat floor to stand on, and 95 inches across by 120 inches tall is a vessel that has to be carried in a structure with the cone hanging clear underneath and a line beneath that. This sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt and no bolt pattern, so the support is a separate item, chosen before the order rather than after the delivery, and the total height you need is this tank plus that stand plus the clearance above the manway. Indoors, measure all three against the roof, the door and the lift before anything is committed, because a vessel of this height is stood upright once. Under the stand, design the foundation for what arrives through its feet: 25,020 pounds of water at 8.34 pounds per gallon and 47,538 pounds at the rating on this sheet, concentrated rather than spread. Confirm the batch size in the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide while the stand height is still a drawing.

Four three thousands at ninety inches, a twenty-six hundred and a thirty-six hundred

The height column is where this family earns its keep. Four listings hold 3,000 gallons, and this tank does it in 120 inches where the three 90 inch listings need 144. That is two feet of height bought with five inches of diameter, and on a cone bottom installation two feet is rarely trivial: the stand sits under the tank, the valve sits under the stand, and the roof does not move for any of it. If your building is the constraint, this is the listing that fits where the taller ones do not. If the floor is the constraint instead, the 90 inch shells are five inches narrower everywhere and the extra height may cost you nothing. The weights on the sheet do not track the volume smoothly, and the sheet explains none of it: this tank is 709 pounds where two of the 3,000 gallon listings are 500 and one is 670. We print what it says. The outer rows are the capacity question. 5100000N40 holds 2,600 gallons at 139 inches on the 90 inch plan at 500 pounds, and 8050000N40 holds 3,600 gallons on a 102 inch plan at 125 inches and 1,090 pounds, which is the widest and by some distance the heaviest in the group. Two guides work through this size from both angles, and both are worth reading before you commit a building to a shape: the 3000 gallon 15 degree cone bottom buyer's guide and the 30 degree natural white cone bottom buyer's guide.

Need a different size? Every tank in the table is in stock programs; ask for a quote on the one that fits, or call 866-418-1777.

The vented manway at the top, and where the fill goes

• The fill: an 18 inch threaded vented manway on top of a 120 inch tank sitting in a stand. It is the fill point, the inspection point and the only opening this sheet publishes, and reaching it is a platform and a fall protection plan designed with the stand rather than after it.
• The vent: the manway is listed as vented, and that vent is what protects the wall while a pump pulls the cone down. Keep it clear, inspect it on a schedule, and never blank it to control a smell.
• The discharge: no outlet size and no bulkhead is published on this sheet. The cone ends in a discharge and the sheet does not dimension it, so we print no number. Tell us the line size, the valve and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• Carrying the valve: the valve, any reducer and the first length of line sit on their own steelwork off the stand rather than on the cone. On a vessel rated for a heavy product, the load at the bottom of a full column is exactly where a hanging valve does its damage.
• Angle and flow: the name gives 30 degrees and the sheet gives no cone angle field. A shallower cone passes a free-flowing liquid well and holds onto anything that packs; decide that against your product before the order rather than at the first changeover.
• Limits: the wall is rated at a specific gravity of 1.9. The maximum operating temperature field reads 120 with no unit given, and we state the figure as the sheet has it and nothing more. No warranty term is published. The stand is a separate item.

Name the product and its density when you enquire. At a rating of 1.9 this listing is built for something heavier than water, and matching the density properly is what separates a vessel sized for the job from one sized for the drawing.

Slurry, blend, and a bottom that has to drain

Three thousand gallons over a cone at a rating of 1.9 is bought where the product weighs more than water and still has to leave through the bottom: concentrated mineral and salt solutions, heavy liquid fertiliser blends, thickened sludge and dewatering duty at a treatment works, mining and wash plant slurries, spent acid and pickling liquor in a metals plant, and process intermediates carrying solids in suspension. Those duties share two problems and the sheet answers only one of them. The first is weight, and the rating on the sheet is the answer. The second is settling, which is what the cone is for and also what makes a shallower cone work harder. Where the material packs rather than pours, say so when you enquire, because the right answer may be a steeper angle rather than a bigger tank, and we would rather send you to the correct shape than sell you this one and hear about it at the first changeover. The other thing worth planning is the mixing, because a tall column separates more readily than a shallow one and the draw-off point is where that shows up.

Listed chemical service for this shell

The maker's list for this resin: each liquid, the concentration it is rated to, and the fitting and gasket that go on the order. Verify your own service on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• sulfuric acid
• hydrochloric acid
• sodium hypochlorite
• peracetic acid or
• DEF. At 1.9 SG this is already the heavy-duty rating for this geometry; if your chemistry exceeds 1.9 specific gravity, contact us before orde

Booking an oversize move for a ten foot tank

Chowchilla, California, is the plant and California is the state the sheet lists it as shipping from. The freight class reads OVS, an oversize mode and not a numeric class, the sheet publishes no NMFC number, and the shipping size matches the tank at 95 inches across and 120 inches tall at 709 pounds. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Ten feet of tank is what makes this an oversize move rather than the weight, which is modest for the volume, and an oversize move is scheduled rather than dispatched: the route, the window and the unloading plan are agreed before the tank leaves the plant, and the machine with the reach to lift it clear of the deck has to be standing on your site when it arrives, not on order. Have the stand built and the foundation cured so the shell goes straight into its structure. Set it, seat it fully, restrain it, and then fill it with clean water and hold that 25,020 pound load while somebody reads the manway seal, the discharge joint, the stand feet and the foundation in that order. Do not let anyone pipe the cone until the water test has been signed off; a joint made before the structure has settled is a joint made twice. Keep the first delivery's paperwork with the tank; strength and date on day one is the baseline for every batch after.