Snyder Industries 4600 Gallon Cone Bottom Tank

The pad, the stand and the twelve inches you save

Where this tank sits is the whole argument for it. On the same 102 inch plan as the larger cone in its family, it stands a foot shorter, and a foot of headroom is the kind of margin that decides whether a vessel goes inside a building or outside it. Inside is worth paying for: a tank under a roof is a tank out of the sun, out of the wind loading, out of the freeze and away from the weather-driven expansion cycles that put a vessel's worst hours at the vapour line rather than in the liquid. So work the height first. Measure to the lowest obstruction at the final position, not at the door, and remember that the sheet's 154 inches is the tank and the frame goes underneath it. Then the frame. This listing is the tank on its own, so the support is specified separately, and it is specified around two things: the clearance you need beneath the apex, and whether the structure is bought or fabricated. Clearance is set by what the cone discharges into. A gravity drop into a tote or a nurse tank needs real height under the outlet and that height comes straight off your ceiling margin; a pumped transfer needs almost none. Decide it before the frame is drawn. The steel frame against polyethylene stand decision tree sets out the buy-or-fabricate question, and the cone bottom stand compatibility matrix is where a site running several makers on common supports starts. Under the frame is the pad, and the numbers it is designed to are on this sheet: 1,200 pounds empty, 38,364 pounds of water, 65,219 pounds of max contents at the rating. Once a frame is under it, all of that arrives as point loads, which is a different design problem from the distributed load a flat-bottomed vertical puts on a slab, and the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks is where that framework and its boundary are set out. Two questions finish the site survey. Where the vessel stands over a floor, a yard or a drain that a release would have to be recovered from, the containment comparison is the honest way to settle that. And where the contents have to be marked up for the people working around them, the tank label and signage guide reconciles the marking schemes that land on one vessel. Confirm 4,600 gallons against your own turnover in the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

A 4400 in a slim shell against this 102 inch one

The two rows beneath this tank are the two directions you can go, and they cost completely different things. 5200000N42 holds 4,400 gallons, almost exactly what this tank holds, in a 90 inch circle rather than a 102 inch one. It buys that narrower plan with height, needing 200 inches where this tank needs 154, and it is listed at 1,700 pounds against 1,200. So the same volume, a smaller floor print, four feet more height and a heavier lift. Where the floor is genuinely the scarce resource, that is a trade worth making, and the heavier listing is the honest signal that the shape is doing more structural work. Where the ceiling is what you are short of, it is the wrong tank and this one is the right one. Going the other way, 8050200C75501 keeps the identical 102 inch plan, adds a foot of height at 166 inches and four hundred gallons at 1,300 pounds. That is the cheapest volume in the group in terms of site work, because the pad, the frame footprint and the working room around it are the same problem you have already solved. The rule of thumb we would give a buyer choosing among these three: settle the building first, then the floor plan, then the volume. Height is the constraint that cannot be negotiated after delivery, floor plan is the one that costs concrete to change, and volume is the one you can partly manage with turnover. This tank is the one that wins when the roof is low and the floor is available.

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.

Drawing off a cone the sheet does not dimension

• The outlet and the valve: the outlet field reads "1 Manway / Lid", which names an opening and not a pipe size, and no inlet, bulkhead, flange or valve appears anywhere on the sheet. Nothing is claimed here that the sheet does not give. 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 drop under the apex: whatever the discharge arrangement turns out to be, it is carried on its own steelwork off the frame rather than off the cone, and the clearance under it is designed around what the tank empties into. That clearance is also the number that eats your headroom, so fix it early.
• Gravity against pumped transfer: a gravity discharge is simpler and needs height; a pumped one is more compact and brings a suction, a strainer and a priming question with it. On a 65,219 pound maximum load, whichever you choose gets a proper isolation valve at the tank and a second one at the pump.
• Access: an 18 inch threaded vented manway on top of 154 inches is the only opening published. It is the fill route, the inspection route and the cleaning route at once, which is worth knowing before you decide what the tank will hold.
• The vent: listed as vented, and that path is what keeps the wall out of trouble while a pump draws the level down. Never restrict it.
• Level: nothing published. Where the reading has to be reliable and remote, the level gauge selection guide for chemical service compares the technologies properly.
• Limits: 100 F / 37 C, a specific gravity rating of 1.7, a 3 Year Warranty.

Name the product at order time and every one of those decisions gets made against the chemistry rather than against a catalogue default.

Where a slightly smaller cone is the right buy

Four thousand six hundred gallons on a wide plan is bought by the operation that wanted five thousand and could not have the height: ag retail blending under an existing roof, chemical batching in a bay with a low steel, polymer and coagulant make-up at a treatment works, slurry holding at a processing plant, and food, beverage and fermentation duty where the vessel has to sit inside a building rather than on a yard. It is also the right buy for a site that already has a pad and a frame from a previous vessel on the same plan, because reusing the footprint saves far more than the difference in gallons is worth. The one thing worth checking before you order is turnover: at four hundred gallons less than the next size up, you want to be confident that a delivery still fits with freeboard to spare, because the vessel that is filled exactly to the brim on every delivery is the one that finds the vent on a hot afternoon.

What this tank is listed to hold

Each line is a liquid the resin is rated for, at the concentration shown, with the fitting and gasket to order. Follow the link for the full rating, or search 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 (stainless wetted parts only - no brass, copper, or carbon steel)
• 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 (PVC, EPDM)
• Ferric Chloride (PVC, EPDM)
• Ferric Sulfate (PVC, EPDM)
• Hydrochloric Acid (PVC, Viton)
• Hydrofluoric Acid (PP/PVC, Viton)
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (PP/PVC, Viton)
• Hydrogen Peroxide (PVC, Viton)
• Peracetic Acid (316SS, Aflas)
• Phosphoric Acid (PVC, Viton)
• Polyaluminum Chloride (PVC, EPDM)
• Potassium Carbonate (PVC, EPDM)
• Potassium Hydroxide (PVC, EPDM)
• Propylene Glycol (PP/316SS, EPDM)
• Sodium Bisulfate (PVC/PP, EPDM)
• Sodium Bisulfite (PVC/PP, EPDM)
• Sodium Hypochlorite (PVC, Viton)
• Sodium Thiosulfate (PVC, EPDM)
• Sulfuric Acid (CPVC, Viton), and
• Zinc Orthophosphate (PP/316SS, EPDM). For any of those, request the 1.9-SG version of this cone so the wall is rated for the weight. Cross-reference everything

Twelve hundred pounds, shipping at 154 inches

Marked Tree, Arkansas is the plant and Arkansas is the only state on the sheet, which makes the mid-South the short lane. The freight class is 300 with no NMFC number listed, and the shipping size is given at 102 by 102 by 154 inches at 1,200 pounds. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Thirteen feet on a trailer still clears more bridges and more gates than the taller cones in the same family, which is a real advantage on a tight industrial estate, but it is not a parcel: book the offloading equipment, and take the tank under the body with forks or a properly rated sling arrangement, never by the manway. Have the frame set, levelled and anchored first, because a cone has no base to rest on and setting it down on its apex to wait is how a vessel gets damaged before it has ever held anything. Fill with clean water, hold the 38,364 pound load, and read the manway seal, the apex joint, the frame feet and the pad in that order before any product goes near it. Keep the water in it overnight if the schedule allows; a slow leak announces itself in the morning, not in the first hour. Walk the base after the first hard rain; a pad that shifts shows it at the edge first.