Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon XLPE Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank

Twelve feet of shell before the stand goes under it

Read the 144 inch height as the starting point rather than the finished one. A cone bottom tank has no flat bottom, so a stand carries it and the stand goes underneath all twelve feet of that. This sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern, which means the support is a separate item with its own drawing and its own lead time, and no stand height, rated load or stand material appears on this page. Work it out before the tank is ordered rather than after it arrives, with the stand compatibility matrix and a call to us to confirm the fit against this part number. Then the plant room arithmetic, which is where these decisions are actually made. The total is the stand, plus 144 inches of shell, plus clearance above the manway for a person and a fill line, and separately the room under the cone for whatever the discharge feeds. Measure from the lowest fixed thing over the spot and work down, not from the ridge. On the ground, the pad takes 670 pounds of empty tank, 25,020 pounds of water and 47,538 pounds at the rating, and on a cone that arrives through a handful of stand feet inside a 90 inch circle rather than spreading over a slab. Designed ground with a bearing area at every foot is what that asks for, and on a 1.9 rated duty it is not the place to economise. One thing this sheet does give you that most in the range do not is what the shell itself carries: 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs, ladder lugs and 2 flange lines. The lifting lugs are the difference between a planned lift and an improvised one on the day, and the ladder lugs mean the access arrangement can be drawn against the tank rather than invented around it. Settle the volume before any of this with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 3000 quad, a 2600 below it and a 3600 across

Four rows here are the identical 3,000 gallon shell at 90 by 90 by 144 inches, separated by empty weight and by the name the sheet prints on each: 670 pounds on the two heavy duty listings and 500 pounds on the two standard ones. The sheet offers no account of that and this page invents none. What it does publish, and what makes the choice easy, is the rating. At a specific gravity rating of 1.9 with 47,538 pounds of max contents, this is the listing for a product noticeably heavier than water; the 500 pound listings carry their own figures for their own duties, and buying above your duty buys paperwork rather than capability. Colour splits the quad the other way and it is about siting: natural white here, so an operator can read a level through the wall in daylight, against black on the other pair for a tank standing in the open or holding something that keeps better in the dark. The bottom two rows change the shape instead of the rating. 5100000N40 holds 2,600 gallons at 139 inches on this same 90 inch circle, which is the honest buy when the real batch is smaller than the round number in the specification and it hands back five inches of height into the bargain. 8050000N40 goes the other way at 3,600 gallons on a 102 inch circle at 125 inches, more volume out of less height in exchange for floor. If the 3,000 gallon decision is the one in front of you, the long read is worth the hour: the complete buyer's guide for a 3000 gallon cone bottom tank with a shallower cone walks the whole selection rather than one part number.

Which wall for your chemical? Call 866-418-1777 with the name and the concentration, or send a quote request and we will pick the row.

The outlet field, the thirty degree cone, and the lugs the sheet counts

• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid on this sheet. That names an opening and not a discharge, and we print it exactly as it reads rather than converting it into a pipe size. No outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published or claimed here. Tell us the line size, the valve type and the product, and we will confirm what this part number carries before anything is ordered.
• The cone: published at 30 degrees, the middle of the common angles. That keeps a free-flowing liquid moving toward one point and will hold onto material that packs or consolidates. If your product settles hard, say so when you enquire and let us talk about geometry rather than capacity.
• What hangs below it: the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe belong on their own steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint so pump vibration stays out of the wall. With 47,538 pounds of rated contents above it, the bottom of a full column is the wrong place for dead weight.
• Access on top: an 18 inch threaded vented manway at 144 inches plus the stand, with ladder lugs listed on the shell so the access can be drawn against the tank. The vent arrives with the manway rather than being specified separately, which matters on a vessel being pumped out, because a wall that cannot take air in takes the load instead.
• What else the sheet dimensions: 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs and 2 flange lines. Use the lifting lugs on the day and plan the lift around them rather than around a sling position somebody guesses at the kerb.
• Inlet, warranty and NMFC: none of the three is published, and none is claimed. Ratings are a specific gravity of 1.9, 25,020 pounds of water at 3,000 gallons, 47,538 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

Where the shell material itself is the question rather than the shape, the XLPE against HDPE comparison sets out the duties where crosslinking changes the answer and the duties where it does not.

Dense batch product that must not leave a heel

A 1.9 rated 3,000 gallon cone on a small footprint goes to operations with a heavy product and a schedule that will not tolerate a residue. Concentrated mineral and salt solutions in a process building, heavy liquid fertiliser and crop input blends at an agricultural retailer, thickened sludge and settled solids at a treatment works, spent acid and pickling liquor in a metals plant, mineral and wash plant slurry, and batch make-up in chemical manufacturing where the vessel changes product and cannot afford to leave a heel behind. On a flat bottomed tank every one of those changeovers leaves a layer; at 3,000 gallons that layer is a disposal ticket and a contamination risk in the next batch. The 30 degree cone removes the argument by giving the vessel one low point to drain toward, and it is a sensible middle angle for a free-flowing product rather than a steep one for something that packs. The caution that goes with the shape is stratification, because 144 inches of liquid on a 90 inch circle separates more readily than a wide shallow vessel does, so plan the draw point and the mixing arrangement together rather than one after the other. Settle the chemistry first in our chemical compatibility reference, because the gasket and valve answer comes from the product and not from 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
• Aluminum Sulfate
• Calcium Chloride
• DEF
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Ferrous Sulfate
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid
• Magnesium Chloride
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol
• Sodium Carbonate
• Sodium Thiosulfate and
• Urea Solution.

Six hundred and seventy pounds, class 400, Nebraska moulding

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Nebraska is the origin state on the sheet, so the Midwest and the plains are the short lane and the coasts are the long ones. 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 670 pounds, a large, light load that takes trailer space rather than payload, which is exactly why the class reads the way it does on a tank this light. Price your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. It travels lying down and is stood up at your end, so nominate the machine and the person for that in advance. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and none is described here; agree the offload arrangement and the window with us before the truck is booked. Have the stand set, levelled and anchored first. Lift by the 8 lifting lugs the sheet lists, never by the manway, and keep the tank restrained the moment it stands upright. Then prove the installation with clean water rather than product: hold the 25,020 pound load, walk the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge with a torch, and leave it standing full overnight before anything is connected. Walk the pad again after the first hard rain, because a new load settles the ground beneath it and the edge of the pad is where that shows first. Walk the base after the first hard rain; a pad that shifts shows it at the edge first.