Snyder Industries 3600 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

The shortest cone on this sheet and the room it fits

Height is where this tank makes its case, so start with the ceiling. At 125 inches the vessel is a little over ten feet to the top before a frame is added, which is the lowest of any cone bottom tank on its own sheet and low enough to go into buildings that will not take the taller ones at all: a workshop bay, a converted barn, a process room under a mezzanine, a covered loading area with a header beam across it. Every foot you save at the tank is a foot you can spend on clearance under the discharge instead, and on a cone that clearance is what decides whether the vessel can drop into a tote by gravity or has to be pumped out. Measure to the lowest obstruction at the final position and lay out the stand height and the tank height as one sum. The support itself is a separate specification, because no stand and no structural detail appears on this sheet. Two guides carry that decision: the steel frame against polyethylene stand decision tree on whether the frame is bought or fabricated, and the cone bottom stand compatibility matrix where a plant standardises supports across makers. Whatever holds it up has to be level across every foot, and the surface under those feet has to be designed for point loads rather than for a spread base; 1,090 pounds empty, 30,024 pounds of water and 45,036 pounds of max contents all arrive through the frame, and the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks sets out the framework for that and where it stops. The wide 102 inch plan is the second half of the site story and it is an advantage indoors. Eight and a half feet across against ten and a half feet tall is a squat, stable proportion, which keeps the frame simpler and the anchoring less demanding than a slender column of the same volume would need. Leave working room all the way round for the discharge, the access ladder and a future lift. Where the tank stands over a floor or a drain that a release would have to be recovered from, the containment comparison sets out that argument, and where the contents have to be marked for the people working beside them, the tank label and signage guide reconciles the several schemes. Check 3,600 gallons against your real batch in the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Four 3600s, a 3000 and a 3900

Four of these six hold 3,600 gallons on the identical 102 by 102 by 125 inch shell at the identical 1,090 pounds, and what separates them is the name on the sheet and nothing the sheet explains. One is named cross-linked, one is named simply as a cone bottom tank, and two are named black, one of those as heavy duty. We print the names as given and offer no interpretation of them, because guessing at what a name implies about a wall is exactly how the wrong vessel gets bought. Two things are worth knowing all the same. Colour is a real service difference outdoors, since a black wall keeps light out of the contents and a natural white one lets an operator see the level through it. And the chemistry you tell us is what decides between the four, which is a conversation to have before the order rather than a code to crack from a table. The genuinely different rows are the last two, and they trade plan against height exactly as the rest of this family does. 5150000N40 holds 3,000 gallons in a 90 inch circle at 144 inches and only 500 pounds, which is far the lightest thing on the sheet and the easiest to handle on site. 5440000N40 holds 3,900 gallons, three hundred more than this tank, in the same 90 inch circle but at 180 inches tall and 1,100 pounds. So the narrow shells buy floor space with height, and this tank buys headroom with floor. If your building has a low steel, the 125 inch shell is the one that fits; if your floor is crowded and the roof is open, the 90 inch shells are the ones that free the ground.

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 manway, the vent and the discharge below

• The discharge: no outlet size, no inlet, no bulkhead and no valve is published, and the outlet field reads "1 Manway / Lid", which names an opening rather than a pipe size. Nothing further is claimed here. Tell us the line size, the valve type, the pump and the product, and we will confirm what this part number carries before anything is ordered.
• Solids and the last gallon: a cone is bought to empty completely, and whether it does depends on the outlet geometry and the material as much as on the shape. Where the product settles, packs or carries solids, say so when you enquire and we will talk about the discharge before the tank.
• Under the apex: the valve, the reducer and the first pipe length sit on their own steelwork off the frame, never on the moulding, with a flexible connector at the first joint to keep pump vibration out of the wall.
• Access: an 18 inch threaded vented manway on top, the only opening the sheet publishes, and at 125 inches it is the most reachable top in this family. That is a genuine operating advantage on a vessel that has to be entered, rinsed and inspected on a schedule.
• The vent: listed as vented, and that path protects the wall while a pump draws the level down. Keep it clear and never blank it.
• Level: nothing published, so the reading arrangement is specified separately; the level gauge selection guide for chemical service compares radar, ultrasonic, hydrostatic and magnetostrictive on their merits.
• Limits: 100 F / 37 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.5, and a 3 Year Warranty. The rating on this listing is its own; the heavier-rated cones in the wider range carry theirs.

One sentence covers what the sheet does not: there is no published inlet fitting on this tank, so the fill route is the manway unless we confirm otherwise against the part.

Suspensions, slurries and anything that settles

Thirty-six hundred gallons over a cone, in a shell low enough to go indoors, is bought for duties where the contents will not stay mixed on their own: polymer and coagulant make-up at a water or wastewater plant, pigment, filler and additive holding beside a mixer, mineral and slurry handling at a wash plant, crop input blending at an ag retail site, food and beverage settling and fermentation, and any process that thickens something and then draws it off. The tell is always the same. If your operators are rinsing the vessel three times to be sure, or pumping a heel out before a changeover, the shape of the bottom is the problem and not the procedure. This is also a sensible size for a plant stepping up from drums and totes for the first time, because ten and a half feet fits under a roof that a taller cone would not, and the volume is large enough to buy in bulk without committing the floor space a five thousand gallon vessel wants.

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 at 60% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Calcium Chloride at 40% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) at 32.5% - 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Magnesium Chloride at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Urea Solution at 50% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (the only chemical in this set needing Viton gaskets rather than EPDM)
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol and
• Sodium Thiosulfate.If you store any of these, ask for the 1.9 SG version when you call.

A 125 inch shipment and 1,090 pounds

Marked Tree, Arkansas is the plant, and Arkansas is the only state on this sheet. Freight is LTL at class 300 with no NMFC number listed, and the shipping size is given at 102 by 102 by 125 inches and 1,090 pounds. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Ten and a half feet is the friendliest height in this family on a trailer and through a gate, but it is still a wide load on its plan, so measure the door and the turning room on the route to the final position before the truck is booked. Take it off under the body with forks or a rated sling arrangement, never by the manway, and have the frame set, levelled and anchored before the tank arrives so it never has to rest on its apex. Fill it with clean water, hold the 30,024 pound load, and read the manway seal, the apex joint, the frame and the pad. Then do the thing most sites skip: drain it fully through whatever discharge arrangement you have fitted and time it, because on a cone the drain time is the number your production schedule actually runs on. Write that time and the date on the tank in paint marker before the first product goes in. 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.