Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

The freight lane for a light, tall, bulky package

Price the movement before you argue about the tank, because this is the shape that catches buyers out. It is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska given as the origin state on the sheet, so the central lanes are short and either coast is long. What moves is 90 inches by 90 inches by 144 inches at 500 pounds, twelve feet of shell lying on the deck: a load that takes trailer length rather than payload, and the freight class reads 400, a numeric class rather than a mode, with no NMFC number published. Put the lane through the freight cost estimator at the start rather than at the end; the listed price is before freight. At 500 pounds this is the lightest listing on the shell, and that shows up twice: once in what the truck charges, and once on the day the vessel has to be stood upright, where the sheet helps by listing 8 lifting lugs and 4 tiedown lugs on the shell itself. Underneath it goes a structure this sheet does not publish. No stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern appears, 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. Specify it against the tank with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and confirm the fit with us before the order goes in. The finished height is the stand plus 144 inches plus clearance above the manway, and separately the room the cone needs to discharge into below. The pad 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, which is designed ground with a bearing area at every foot. Size the volume first with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Where the lighter black listing sits in the quad

This listing is the lightest of four on one shell, and the table makes the choice readable in about a minute. All four hold 3,000 gallons at 90 by 90 by 144 inches, and the sheet separates them by empty weight and by the name printed on each: 500 pounds here and on the natural white standard listing, 670 pounds on the two heavy duty listings. The sheet explains none of that and this page prints the figures rather than theorising about them. What you can act on is the pairing this row gives you. The rating is a specific gravity of 1.5 with 37,530 pounds of max contents, which covers water, treated water and the broad run of process liquids no heavier than water, so it is the right buy unless your product is genuinely denser. The colour is black, which keeps daylight off the contents and suits a tank that will stand outdoors for years or hold something that degrades in light. Put those together and this is the outdoor workhorse of the quad: ordinary liquids, ordinary density, a wall that does not let the sun in. The two outer rows are a size ladder rather than a rating decision. 5100000N40 holds 2,600 gallons at 139 inches on the same circle, five inches shorter for a batch that is barely smaller, and 8050000N40 holds 3,600 gallons on a 102 inch circle at 125 inches for the site with floor to spare and a low roof. If the 3,000 gallon question is still open, the complete buyer's guide for a 3000 gallon cone bottom tank with a shallower angle walks the whole selection rather than one part number.

Height or floor the limit? The table has both shapes; freight to your ZIP is quoted on each row, or call 866-418-1777 with the site.

Access, vent and fill before anything below

• Lid and manway: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, sitting at 144 inches plus the height of the stand. It is the only opening this sheet dimensions, so the fill arrangement is built around it, and the line belongs at a coupling at working level rather than in somebody's hands at the top of a twelve foot tank.
• The vent: it arrives with the manway on this sheet rather than as a separate item, so keep it clear and never blank, paint or tape it. On a vessel being drawn down by pump, the air path is what stops the wall taking the load.
• Access: the sheet lists ladder lugs on the shell, so the climbing arrangement can be drawn against the tank, and a platform or fixed ladder with a fall protection plan belongs in the same drawing as the structure.
• Inlet: none published. No fill fitting, no size and no position appears on this sheet, so the route is designed rather than assumed, and the air path is sized to the faster of the fill rate and the draw rate.
• Outlet: the field reads 1 Manway / Lid. That is an opening rather than a discharge, and this page prints it as it reads and nothing more. No outlet size, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published, and none is claimed. Give us the line size you need to land and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before it ships.
• The cone and what hangs under it: published at 30 degrees, with the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe on steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, and a flexible connector at the first joint. 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; the sheet also lists 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs and 2 flange lines, and publishes no warranty term.

A black wall gives an operator no view of the level, so where the tank stands over a surface that would have to be recovered after a release, settle the containment design early: the Captor containment comparison is the honest starting point and it sometimes changes the layout rather than adding to it.

Rinse-down, day tank and blend duty

Think of this listing as bulk volume for ordinary liquids in a shell built to stand outside. Wash and rinse water systems where the vessel is emptied between runs, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer, polymer and coagulant make-up at a water or wastewater works, batch preparation and intermediate holding in manufacturing, process and treated water storage that still has to drain fully, and day tank duty feeding a pump at a steady rate from a large reserve. What ties them together is the changeover, and the changeover is where a 30 degree cone earns its price: 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. The black wall adds a second reason, which is light: a product that degrades in daylight keeps better in this shell than in a translucent one, and a tank standing outdoors year round has an easier life. The limitation worth naming belongs to the shape, not the tank: 144 inches of liquid on a 90 inch circle stratifies more readily than a wide shallow vessel, so if your blend wants to separate, plan the draw point and the mixing arrangement at the same time as the tank. Check the liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the gaskets and valves are chosen.

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%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Aluminum Sulfate (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Calcium Chloride (40%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• DEF (32.5%) - 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Magnesium Chloride (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Urea Solution (50%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (Viton gaskets)
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol and
• Sodium Thiosulfate - require a higher 1.9 SG tank rather than this 1.5 SG model. If you are storing any of those, step up to the 1.9-rated version.

Class 400 from Lincoln, and the water test before product

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, 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 travels lying down. Price the lane to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is described here; settle the offload equipment and the delivery window with us in advance rather than assuming a forklift will do. Set, level and anchor the stand first, lift by the 8 lifting lugs the sheet lists rather than by the manway, and keep the tank restrained from the moment it is upright, because an empty shell this tall moves in wind long before anybody expects it to. Then fill it with clean water before the product arrives, hold the 25,020 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint and the stand feet in daylight, and leave it standing full overnight. Write the outlet fitting size and material on the site plan while the tape is still out, because the replacement is ordered by those two words and nobody will want to climb for them twice. The vent screen is the cheapest part on the tank and the one that saves it; look at it every time the manway opens.