Snyder Industries 4600 Gallon 15 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank

Buying the wall you will actually load

This tank exists beside a twin that holds exactly the same volume on exactly the same circle, and the family comparison is the entire argument for buying it. SII-8050100N45 holds 4,600 gallons in 102 inches by 123 inches at 1,090 pounds, and its own sheet carries a higher specific gravity rating and a larger max contents figure. This one holds the same 4,600 gallons in 102 inches by 164 inches at 470 pounds, rated at 1.5 with 57,546 pounds of max contents. Two vessels, one volume, one circle, and two completely different propositions. Take this one when your product is no heavier than water, because then the higher rating on the other listing is wall you are paying for and will never load, and the rule we would rather follow than sell up is that nobody should buy a rating they do not need. Take this one, too, when height is available and weight is not: at 470 pounds this vessel is handled, lifted and set with far less machine than its twin, and that shows up in the cost of the day the tank is installed as well as in the cost of the tank. What you accept in exchange is 164 inches of shell, which is thirteen and a half feet before the stand is counted, and a stand is not optional here. A cone bottom tank has no flat floor; this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt and no ring, so the support is a separate item chosen before the tank is ordered. The stand compatibility matrix is where that gets worked through across makers and it is the first document to read, not the last. Everything above the stand then lands on the foundation: 470 pounds of empty tank, 38,364 pounds of water and 57,546 pounds at the rating, through a 102 inch circle. That is engineered ground, level and uniform, and on a tall vessel it wants restraint and an honest look at wind exposure as well. Settle the volume and the turnover before any structure is drawn with the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Reading the 102 inch family by weight instead of volume

Cover the gallons column with your thumb and the table tells a clearer story. This is the lightest vessel of the four at 470 pounds, and it is not the smallest; SII-8360037 holds 3,000 gallons and is listed at 940 pounds on a 95 inch circle, 135 inches tall. That single comparison is the most useful thing on this sheet, because it shows that empty weight in this family tracks the wall and the rating rather than the volume, and it is why choosing by size alone leads people to the wrong part. SII-8050200N42 is the step up in product: 5,000 gallons on the same 102 inch circle at 176 inches and 1,300 pounds, worth taking when a few hundred extra gallons between deliveries changes the delivery schedule and the building can carry the height. SII-8050100N45 is the same volume as this tank in a much shorter shell at a higher rating, and it is the row to move to if either your ceiling or your product's density says so. Note what is constant: three of the four share the 102 inch circle, so the pad, the bund and the access aisle are the same design across them, and you can change your mind about height and rating later without re-cutting the ground. Note also what the sheet does not do, which is explain any of the weight differences. We print the figures as given and offer no theory about them.

Ready to choose a row? Add the 4600 gallon tank to your cart above with freight quoted to your ZIP, or 866-418-1777 will confirm it against the site first.

The opening on top, and the cone nobody dimensioned

• Breathing first: the sheet gives the top opening as 18 inches and does not call it vented. On a 164 inch column being drawn off a shallow cone, the air path is the wall's protection, so specify and size the vent as part of the installation, to the faster of the fill rate and the draw rate, and check it whenever the tank is opened. Never blank it to stop a smell.
• Access: 18 inches at 164 inches, plus the stand. That is a fixed ladder, a platform and a fall protection plan drawn at the same time as the structure. Bring the fill to a coupling at working level so nobody carries a hose up there.
• The discharge: no outlet, no inlet and no bulkhead is published on this sheet, so no size or thread appears on this page. Tell us the line size, the valve type and what you are moving and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• Support for what hangs below: the valve and the first length of line are carried on steelwork off the stand, with a flexible connector at the first joint. On a light shell that point matters more, not less, because there is less wall to absorb a bad habit.
• Angle: 15 degrees from the name, no cone angle field on the sheet. A shallow cone empties a free-flowing liquid cleanly and will hold onto anything that settles hard or packs, which is a real consideration if your product carries solids.
• Ratings: a specific gravity rating of 1.5, 38,364 pounds of water, 57,546 pounds of max contents, and 120 F / 48 C. No warranty term is published.

Lay the top out once and properly, because a fill, a vent, a level device and a return line all compete for the same space and rework at that height is expensive: the top fitting placement guide works through the sequence. If the cone angle is still open, the buyer's guide on 15, 30 and 45 degree cones compares them on drainage and height. And where the vessel stands over ground or a floor that would have to be recovered after a release, the Captor containment comparison sets the contained route against the alternatives honestly.

Batch storage where the product is no heavier than water

A 1.5 rated cone at this volume goes into the ordinary heavy lifting of a plant: process water and treated water holding that still has to drain completely, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer, batch make-up and blending in manufacturing, polymer and coagulant preparation at a water or wastewater works, food and beverage process duty where the vessel is emptied and cleaned between products, and buffer storage between two stages that run at different rates. The cone is what makes all of those work, because the vessel keeps draining toward one low point rather than leaving a ring of product behind at every changeover. The light shell is what makes it affordable to install. If your product is denser than water, stop here and look at the higher rated listing instead; if it is not, this is the sensible way to buy 4,600 gallons.

Rated chemistries for this tank

The manufacturer lists these liquids for this resin at the concentrations noted, with the fitting and gasket material to specify. Check the concentration and temperature you actually run on the linked 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

Four hundred and seventy pounds, and why light is not free

This tank is moulded at Marked Tree, Arkansas, the short lane into the mid-South and the lower Midwest. The sheet gives the freight class as OVS, an oversize mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600, and it shipments at 102 inches by 102 inches by 164 inches, so it travels lying down and is stood up at the site. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Oversize is a booked movement with a route and a window agreed in advance, and the width is what governs the yard: 102 inches across on a trailer needs a gate, a turning circle and a clear approach. The 470 pound empty weight makes the lift easy and creates the one real hazard on delivery day, which is that a vessel this large and this light moves in wind long before anybody expects it to. Keep it strapped on the trailer, keep it strapped on the ground, and do not stand it up until the stand is set, levelled and anchored. Then fill it with clean water, hold that 38,364 pound load, and read the top fitting, the cone joint and the stand feet in that order before the product arrives. Take a photograph of the tank standing full on day one and keep it with the paperwork; every later argument about whether something has moved starts from that picture. Leave room to walk all the way around it; the side of the tank nobody can see is the side that leaks.