Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

Western lanes, ten feet of height, and what travels easily

Where this tank is made shapes who should buy it. It is moulded at Chowchilla, California, with California given as the origin state on the sheet, so the western lanes are short and the eastern ones are not. What travels is 95 inches by 95 inches by 120 inches at 612 pounds, and the freight class reads 400, a numeric class rather than a mode, with no NMFC number published. That is a wide, light package that takes deck space rather than payload, which is why the quote on a tank like this surprises people who priced it by weight. Settle the number early with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Ten feet of shell is also the friendliest load at this capacity once the truck is on site, because there is less to turn upright than on the 144 inch listings in the same family, and a wide shell wants a clear circle of ground rather than a tight corner to be stood in. Then deal with what it stands on, which is not on this sheet: no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern is published, and a cone bottom tank has no flat bottom, so the support is bought separately and no stand height, rated load or stand material appears here. Specify it with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and confirm the fit with us against this part number before the order goes in. The finished height is the stand, plus 120 inches, plus clearance above the manway, and separately the room under the cone for whatever the discharge feeds. The pad takes 612 pounds of empty tank, 25,020 pounds of water and 37,530 pounds at the rating through stand feet inside a 95 inch circle, so it is designed ground with a bearing area at every foot. Size the volume before the structure with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The short route to three thousand gallons

There are two ways to hold 3,000 gallons in this family and the table shows both. This tank does it on a 95 inch circle at 120 inches. The three 5150000 listings do it on a 90 inch circle at 144 inches. Neither is better in the abstract: one asks for two feet of height you may not have, the other asks for more floor than a crowded plant room may have, and a tape measure settles it in about five minutes. The 5150000 rows carry their own weights, 500 pounds on two of them and 670 pounds on the heavy duty listing, with no explanation on the sheet and none invented here. Where this listing is the clear answer is a low building with room across the floor, and a product no denser than water. That is what the 1.5 rating and the 37,530 pound max contents figure cover, and it is the majority of ordinary plant duty; buying more rating than the product needs is buying something you will never load. Either side of the capacity, 5100000N40 holds 2,600 gallons at 139 inches for a smaller real batch, and 8050000N40 holds 3,600 gallons on a 102 inch circle at 125 inches and 1,090 pounds, the widest and heaviest option here. Two longer reads cover the rest of the choice honestly: the buyer's guide at this capacity with a shallower cone and the natural white 30 degree buyer's guide.

Want the certified one or the plain one? Call 866-418-1777 and say what the inspector asks for; or request a quote on the row you need.

Reading the lid line before the outlet line

• Lid and manway: an 18 inch threaded vented manway at 120 inches plus the height of the stand. It is the only opening this sheet dimensions, so everything about filling the tank is designed around it. Land the fill at a coupling at working level, and put the platform or fixed ladder with a fall protection plan in the same drawing as the structure rather than adding it after the tank is standing.
• The vent: supplied with the manway on this sheet rather than as a separate item. Keep it clear, inspect it whenever the tank is opened, and never blank, paint or tape it, because on a vessel being pumped down the air path is what stops the wall taking the load.
• 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 claimed. Tell 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: no angle field on this sheet and no angle in the product name, so none is stated here. Under it, valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe go on steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint so pump vibration stays out of the wall.
• What else the sheet gives, and what it leaves blank: 2 flange lines are noted; no lifting lug count, no warranty term and no NMFC number appear. 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.

If this tank will stand over a surface that has to be recovered after a spill, read the Captor containment comparison before the bund is designed, because the contained route sometimes changes the whole layout rather than adding to it.

Ordinary plant duty in a building with a low ceiling

This is the everyday listing of the pair: a 1.5 rated cone in a shell short enough to go indoors under a fixed roof. Process and treated water holding that still has to drain fully, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer, polymer and coagulant preparation at a water or wastewater works, batch make-up in manufacturing, food and beverage duty where the vessel is rinsed between products, and buffer storage between two stages running at different rates. In all of them the cone does its work at the changeover rather than during the run, and that is the part a flat bottomed tank cannot match: nothing is left standing on a floor to be shovelled, pumped or explained. The squat shape helps a second way, because a wide shallow vessel holds a blend together better than a tall narrow one does, so a product that wants to settle gives less trouble here. Natural white adds the small daily convenience of a level you can see through the wall in daylight. Whatever the liquid is, look it up in our chemical compatibility reference before the fittings are specified rather than after the first fill.

Resin compatibility, line by line

Below are the liquids this resin is rated for, the concentration each rating holds to, and the fitting and gasket to specify. Check the exact concentration and temperature you run against the chemical page or the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• acetic acid
• aluminum sulfate
• calcium chloride
• DEF
• ferrous sulfate
• magnesium chloride
• sodium carbonate and
• urea solution or the full
• ethylene glycol
• ferric chloride
• ferric sulfate
• hydrofluosilicic acid (Viton gaskets)
• polyaluminum chloride
• potassium carbonate
• potassium hydroxide
• propylene glycol and
• sodium thiosulfate .Matching SG to the heaviest fluid you will ever store is the most common cone-tank specifying mistake; call 866-418-1777 to source the 1.5

Class 400 leaving California on a ten foot crate

The freight class on this listing reads 400, a numeric class rather than a mode, and the sheet publishes no NMFC number. The crate measures 95 inches by 95 inches by 120 inches at 612 pounds and leaves Chowchilla, California lying down on the deck. Run your ZIP through the freight cost estimator before the shape argument is settled; the listed price is before freight. Somebody stands it up at your end, which belongs in the plan rather than in the moment. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is stated 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 under the body with slings, never by the manway or the top of the cone, and keep the tank restrained from the moment it is upright. Then fill it with clean water, hold the 25,020 pound load, and read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the ground around the pad in daylight. Walk the base again after the first hard rain, since a pad that shifts shows it at the edge first. Keep one spare gasket for the outlet fitting on the shelf; it is the part that fails on a holiday.