Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

Lincoln to your dock, with twelve feet of shell on the trailer

Start with where this tank comes from, because on a light, bulky moulded vessel the lane is a bigger part of the decision than most buyers expect. It is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Nebraska is the origin state on the sheet, which puts the Midwest and the plains on the short run and both coasts on the long one. What travels is 90 inches by 90 inches by 144 inches at 500 pounds, twelve feet of shell lying on its side taking trailer deck rather than payload, so the quote is priced on the space it occupies and not on what it weighs. Get that number early with the freight cost estimator and let it sit alongside the shape argument rather than after it; the listed price is before freight. Then plan the two things that happen when it arrives. The first is standing it up, which is a nominated machine and a nominated person rather than an improvisation on the tailgate, and the sheet helps here by listing 8 lifting lugs and 4 tiedown lugs on the shell. The second is what it stands on, which is not on this sheet at all: 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 lead time and no stand height, rated load or stand material is stated on this page. Order it against the tank rather than after it, using the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and a call to us to confirm the fit. Your finished height is the stand plus 144 inches plus working clearance above the manway, measured down from the lowest fixed thing over the spot, and the pad below takes 500 pounds of empty tank, 25,020 pounds of water and 37,530 pounds at the rating through stand feet inside a 90 inch circle. Size the volume before any of that is drawn with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

One circle, four listings, and the sizes either side

One 90 inch circle runs through the top five rows, so the only real variables are height, weight and rating. Four of them are the identical 3,000 gallon shell at 144 inches, and the sheet separates them by empty weight and by the name it prints on each: 500 pounds on this listing and on the black standard listing, 670 pounds on the two heavy duty ones. No account of that difference appears on the sheet and none is invented here. What is worth acting on is the rating this page carries. A specific gravity rating of 1.5 with 37,530 pounds of max contents covers water, treated water and the broad run of process liquids no heavier than water, which is most of what a cone bottom tank actually holds; if your product is genuinely denser, take the rating that matches it rather than asking the wall to argue for you. Colour is the second split and it is about siting rather than duty: natural white on this listing lets an operator read a level through the wall in daylight, which on a twelve foot tank saves a climb, and the black listings keep light off the contents instead. The last two rows are a height and footprint ladder. 5100000N40 holds 2,600 gallons at 139 inches on the same circle, which is the honest buy when the real batch is smaller than the round number. 8050000N40 holds 3,600 gallons on a 102 inch circle at 125 inches, which is more volume out of less height at the cost of floor. Two longer reads cover the rest of the selection properly: the buyer's guide for a 3000 gallon cone with a shallower angle and the buyer's guide for a natural white 30 degree cone at this capacity.

Pad already poured? Send its size to 866-418-1777 or in a quote request and we will match a row to it, freight to your ZIP included.

The fill opening first: an eighteen inch threaded vented manway

• The opening on top: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, sitting at 144 inches plus the height of the stand. That is the access and, on this sheet, the only opening that carries a published size, so the fill route is designed around it. Land the line at a coupling at working level rather than asking anyone to carry a hose to the top, and put the platform or fixed ladder and the fall protection plan in the same drawing as the structure.
• The vent: it arrives with the manway on this sheet rather than as a separate item. On a tank being drawn down by pump, the air path is what protects the wall, so keep it clear, check it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank, tape or wrap it to control an odour.
• Getting to it: the sheet lists ladder lugs on the shell, so the access arrangement can be drawn against the tank instead of being invented around it. It also lists 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs and 2 flange lines.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid. That names an opening, not a discharge, and we print it exactly as it reads. No outlet size, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published or claimed. Tell us the line size you need to land and the product, and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• The cone: published at 30 degrees. That is the middle of the common angles, good for a free-flowing liquid and less generous with a product that packs or consolidates. Below it, carry the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe on steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint.
• Inlet, warranty and NMFC: none of the three is published, and none is claimed. Ratings are a specific gravity of 1.5, 25,020 pounds of water at 3,000 gallons, 37,530 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

Where the tank stands over ground, a floor or a drain that would have to be recovered after a release, the containment question is separate from the tank question and deserves its own answer: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained polyethylene route against the alternatives before a bund is poured around the wrong thing.

Make-up water, polymer and everything rinsed between batches

This rating and this size sit in the middle of ordinary plant life, which is why it is one of the busiest part numbers in the range. 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, process and treated water storage that still has to drain fully, wash and rinse water systems where the vessel is emptied between runs, and day tank duty feeding a pump at a steady rate. What every one of them has in common is a changeover, and the changeover is where the cone pays for itself: the tank drains toward one low point instead of leaving a layer on a flat floor, so a product change is a rinse rather than a recovery job. At 500 pounds empty this is also one of the easier tanks in the family to handle on the day it goes in, which matters more than it sounds when a machine has to be hired to stand it up. Natural white adds a small daily convenience, because an operator can see roughly where the level sits through the wall in daylight. The limitation worth naming belongs to the shape: 144 inches of liquid on a 90 inch circle stratifies more readily than a wide shallow vessel, so if your blend wants to separate, the draw point and the mixing arrangement need planning together. Check your liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the fittings are chosen, because the product decides the gasket and the valve, not the tank.

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.

• Acetic Acid ), Aluminum Sulfate at 50% (PVC
• Aluminum Sulfate ), Calcium Chloride at 40% (PVC
• Calcium Chloride ), Ferrous Sulfate at 20% (PVC
• Ferrous Sulfate ), Magnesium Chloride at 30% (PVC
• Magnesium Chloride ), Sodium Carbonate at 30% (PVC
• Sodium Carbonate ), Urea Solution at 50% (PP/PVC
• Urea Solution ), and Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM (PVC).DEF at 32.5% is compatible too, but unlike the PVC crowd it calls for 316 stainless steel fittings
• DEF ) - do not cheap out on PVC at the DEF connections.Every one of these uses an EPDM gasket; match the fitting and gasket material to the c

Class 400, five hundred pounds, and the day it stands up

The freight class reads 400, a numeric class rather than a mode, and the sheet publishes no NMFC number. The package is 90 inches by 90 inches by 144 inches at 500 pounds, and it travels lying down out of Lincoln, Nebraska. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so this page describes no lift; agree the offload equipment and the delivery window with us before the truck is booked. Set, level and anchor the stand first, because a cone bottom tank with nowhere to stand is a tank lying in your yard taking the space you needed. Lift by the 8 lifting lugs the sheet lists, never by the manway or the top of the cone, and keep it restrained from the moment it is upright, since an empty shell this size moves in wind well before anybody expects it to. Then prove the installation with clean water rather than product: hold the 25,020 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. Chalk the full-water line on the outside after that first fill; it is the level every later reading gets checked against, and on a natural white wall it stays readable. Tape a copy of the spec sheet inside the control panel door; the next person to touch the tank will not have the box it came in.