Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

Where a ninety-five inch footprint goes, and what has to carry it

Take the floor plan before the flow sheet. This tank occupies a 95 inch circle and stands 120 inches tall before anything is underneath it, and both of those numbers are decided by the building rather than by the process. Ten feet of shell is the friendlier end of the cone bottom range for a plant room: the manway is reachable from a modest platform, the fill can land at working level, and the finished height still leaves most buildings something over the lid. Do the sum honestly, though, because it is stand plus 120 inches plus the clearance an operator needs over the manway, and separately the room under the cone for whatever receives the discharge. Measure down from the lowest fixed thing over the spot, not from the ridge. Then the structure, 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 purchase with its own drawing and lead time, and this page prints no stand height, rated load or material for one. Treat it as half the installation and order it against the tank rather than after it, working the fit out with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and a call to us against this part number. Underneath the stand, the pad takes 612 pounds of empty tank, 25,020 pounds of water and up to 37,530 pounds of rated contents through a handful of feet inside that 95 inch circle rather than spread over a slab, which is designed ground with a bearing area at each foot. One more thing belongs on the drawing while it is cheap: the aisle. At just under eight feet across, nobody inspects the far side or reaches the cone joint from where they are standing, and the day a fitting is changed is the day a walkway round the tank pays for itself. Settle the volume before any concrete is ordered with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard rule from the tank sizing guide, because a product that warms or gasses needs headspace a tape measure will not give you.

The lighter listing on the wide shell, read against the tall one

Cover the gallons column and this table is a lesson in shells rather than sizes. Three thousand gallons appears four times and comes in two shapes: this one at 95 inches across and 120 inches tall, and the 5150000 listings at 90 inches across and 144 inches tall. If your ceiling is fixed, the 120 inch shell is the one that fits and the extra five inches of width is the price you pay for it; if your floor is tight and the roof is high, the taller shell is the better tenant. That is the first decision and it is made with a tape measure. The second decision is the one this row represents. On this shell the sheet lists this listing at 612 pounds with a rating of 1.5 and 37,530 pounds of max contents, and it lists a heavier listing on the same shell at a greater empty weight and a higher specific gravity rating. The sheet offers no account of the weight difference beyond the figures themselves, so none is invented here, and the number you can actually act on is the rating. A rating of 1.5 covers water, treated water and the broad run of process liquids no heavier than water, which is the majority of real cone bottom duty; if that describes your product, this is the honest buy rather than the cautious one. Both listings on this shell are black, so colour is not the choice here the way it is on some families, and a black wall means the level instrument does the work of an eye. The remaining rows are the size ladder: 5100000N40 steps down to 2,600 gallons at 139 inches, and 8050000N40 steps up to 3,600 gallons on a 102 inch circle at 125 inches, which keeps the height sensible by taking more floor. Two long reads cover this capacity properly: the 3,000 gallon cone bottom tank buyer's guide and the buyer's guide for the 30 degree natural white shell, which walks the same decision with a steeper cone and a translucent wall.

Ready to choose a row? Add the 3000 gallon tank to your cart above with freight quoted to your ZIP, or 866-418-1777 will confirm it against the site first.

Start at the drain: one field, one manway and a row of blanks

• The outlet field: 1 Manway / Lid, exactly as this sheet prints it. That names an opening rather than a discharge, so no outlet size, thread, bulkhead or valve is stated here. Give us the line size, the valve type and the product, and we will confirm what 8360000N46 carries before it is ordered.
• The drain path in practice: on a cone the discharge is the low point of the whole vessel and everything hangs from it. Carry the valve, any reducer and the first length of pipe on steelwork off the stand rather than on the tank, and break the line with a flexible connector before the pump so vibration stops at the joint instead of in the wall.
• Pump and suction: 3,000 gallons on a 95 inch circle drains as a relatively wide column, and the last of it still arrives at one point. Size the pump to the line rather than to the tank, and keep the suction run short and straight off the cone so the vessel is not fighting its own plumbing at the end of a batch.
• The cone angle: no cone angle field is published on this sheet and the product name carries none, so no angle is stated. If the angle is decisive for a product that packs or consolidates, ask us to confirm the geometry against the part number before you order.
• Access on top: an 18 inch threaded vented manway at 120 inches plus the stand, with the vent arriving as part of the manway rather than as a separate specification. Keep it clear; a tank being pumped out that cannot take air in takes the load in its wall instead.
• Not published on this sheet and therefore not claimed: the inlet, the lid size, any lug count, the warranty term and the NMFC number. Published: 2 flange lines, a specific gravity rating of 1.5, 25,020 pounds of water at 3,000 gallons, 37,530 pounds of max contents and a service 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, containment is a separate question from the tank and deserves its own answer before a bund is poured around the wrong thing: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained polyethylene route against the alternatives.

Bulk holding for liquids no denser than water

This is the ordinary workhorse of the pair, and the volume is what makes it interesting: 3,000 gallons is enough to take a full bulk drop without splitting it between vessels, and the shape means it gives all of it back. Process and treated water holding that still has to drain fully, 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, wash and rinse water systems emptied between runs, and buffer volume between two process stages that run at different rates. What ties them together is the changeover rather than the run, and the changeover is where a cone earns its price: the vessel keeps draining toward one low point instead of leaving a ring of product on a floor to be pumped, shovelled or explained. At 3,000 gallons that difference is measured in disposal tickets. The black wall adds a second reason that has nothing to do with density: daylight into a translucent tank is a housekeeping problem with a schedule attached, growth in the tank and growth in the lines, and a black shell stops it at the wall. What you give up is the ability to read a level by eye, which is why instrumentation belongs on the same purchase order. The limitations worth naming are both on the sheet. The service limit is 100 F / 37 C, and the rating is 1.5, so a product meaningfully heavier than water belongs on the heavier listing rather than on this one run part full. Check your liquid in our chemical compatibility reference before the fittings are chosen, because the product decides the gasket and the valve, not the vessel.

Chemicals this resin is rated for, with the fitting and gasket to order

These are the chemicals listed for this tank at the concentrations shown. Each links to the full compatibility page; confirm your exact concentration and temperature there 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 (PP/316SS fittings), or
• Sodium Thiosulfate step up to the 1.9 SG version rather than this one. Cross-check every chemical against our

Class 400 out of California on a ten foot package

Chowchilla, California is the moulding plant and the sheet gives California as the state it ships from, so lane cost falls out of how far you are from the west coast. The freight class reads 400 on this listing beside an LTL ship mode, and no NMFC number is published. The crated package is 95 inches by 95 inches by 120 inches at 612 pounds, a small weight in a large space, and that is why a tank this size prices on the room it occupies rather than on the scale ticket. Put your ZIP into the freight cost estimator for the lane figure; the listed price is before freight. It arrives lying down and is stood up at your end. No lug count is published on this sheet, so plan the lift under the body and never off the manway, and settle the offload equipment and the delivery window with us before the truck is booked, because no crane, rigging, permit or escort detail is published either and none is described here. Set, level and anchor the stand before the trailer turns up, because there is nowhere sensible to park a cone bottom tank while a foundation cures. Restrain the shell as soon as it is vertical; ten feet of empty tank moves in a wind that feels like nothing at ground level. Commission with clean water rather than product, hold the 25,020 pound load, and walk the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge with a torch before anything is connected. Then check the anchor bolts again a week later, because ground settles a little under a new load and the fixing that was tight on day one is the one that is loose on day eight. Leave room to walk all the way around it; the side of the tank nobody can see is the side that leaks.