Snyder Industries 5000 Gallon 15 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank

The lightest way to buy five thousand gallons on this sheet

Four tanks on this sheet hold 5,000 gallons on a 102 inch circle, and the reason to take this one is the shell. It is listed at 550 pounds where SII-8050200N42 and SII-8050200N45 are both listed at 1,300 pounds, and it stands 176 inches tall alongside SII-8050200N49, the black listing at the same height and the same 550 pounds. So within the family this is a light listing in the taller shell, and it is the right buy when two things are true: the product does not call for the heavier wall, and the building can carry the height. Where both hold, the lighter vessel is cheaper to move, cheaper to lift, quicker to stand and easier to set on a stand that does not have to carry as much dead weight before it carries any product. Buying a heavier shell you will never load is not prudence; it is money spent on the wrong part of the installation, and we would rather you put it into the stand and the foundation, which is where tanks of this size actually fail. Say what is going in and we will be honest about which listing suits it. What does not change across the family is the structure. A cone bottom tank has no flat floor to stand on, this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt and no ring, and the support is a separate item chosen before the tank is ordered; the stand compatibility matrix is where that question is worked through across makers. Everything then lands on the ground: 550 pounds of empty tank, 41,700 pounds of water and 62,550 pounds at the rating, through the stand's feet into a 102 inch circle, on level, uniform, engineered ground with restraint designed for the site. And settle the volume before the civil work rather than after: put your batch, your turnover and your delivery interval through the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide, because at 176 inches the last foot of height is far more expensive to add later than to allow for now.

Same circle, same volume, four different weights

Four rows hold the same 5,000 gallons and the volume column tells you nothing at all, which is exactly why this table is worth reading slowly. Three of the four are 176 inches tall; only SII-8050200N45 is shorter, at 166 inches, and it is one of the two heavy listings. If a ceiling, a hook height or a doorway is deciding your purchase, that row is the one to check. If not, the choice is between 550 pounds and 1,300 pounds of shell, and the sheet offers no explanation of the difference beyond the figures and the names, so we print them and leave the interpretation where it belongs, which is with the product going in. SII-8050200N49 is this same light listing in black; identical dimensions, identical weight, and colour is the only thing the sheet gives to separate them. The last row is the honest alternative rather than a variant: SII-8050100N43 holds 4,600 gallons at 164 inches and 470 pounds, a shorter and lighter vessel that costs you a few hundred gallons. Where the delivery schedule does not change between 4,600 and 5,000 gallons, that is the easier tank to install and the one to ask about. Where it does, stay here. What is constant across every row is the 102 inch circle, so whichever you pick, the pad, the bund and the aisle are the same piece of civil design and you can change your mind later without re-cutting the ground.

Torn between two rows? Call 866-418-1777 with the liquid and the ceiling height, or ask for a quote on both and compare the freight.

One published opening, and a cone with no dimension on it

• The air path: the sheet lists an 18 inch opening on top and does not describe it as vented, so nothing here promises one. On a light shell 176 inches tall, being pumped off the bottom, the vent is the wall's protection rather than a convenience, and it should be specified with the installation, sized to the faster of fill and draw, and inspected on a schedule. Never blank it to control an odour.
• Access: 18 inches of opening at 176 inches, plus whatever the stand adds beneath. Everything that happens up there needs a fixed ladder, a platform and fall protection designed alongside the structure; bring the fill to a coupling at working level instead.
• The discharge: no outlet, no inlet and no bulkhead is on this sheet, so no size, thread or valve is claimed here. Tell us the line size, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what this part carries before anything is ordered.
• Dead weight below the cone: the valve and the first run of pipe belong on steelwork off the stand, with a flexible connector at the first joint. On a 550 pound shell there is less wall to forgive a hanging valve, so this matters more here, not less.
• Angle: 15 degrees from the name and no cone angle field on the sheet. Shallow cones drain a free-flowing liquid cleanly and hold onto material that settles hard or packs. Where the product carries solids, a steeper angle is the right answer and we will say so.
• Ratings: a specific gravity rating of 1.5, 41,700 pounds of water, 62,550 pounds of max contents and 120 F / 48 C. No warranty term is published.

Lay the top out once, properly, before anything is cut: the fill, the vent, the level device and the return line all compete for the same real estate, and the top fitting placement guide sequences those decisions. If the cone angle is still open, the cone angle selection guide compares the three on drainage and height. 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 on the points that decide it.

Storage and buffering where the cone only has to drain

A light 5,000 gallon cone earns its place where the vessel holds product rather than fights it: process and treated water holding that still has to empty completely, liquid fertiliser and crop nutrition storage at an agricultural retailer, make-up and blending in manufacturing, coagulant and polymer preparation at a water or wastewater plant, buffer volume between two process stages, and food and beverage duty where the tank is cleaned out between products. The shallow cone suits all of those because the liquid flows on its own and the tank only has to finish the job rather than start it. Where the product is heavier than water, or carries solids that pack, this is the wrong listing and possibly the wrong angle, and the right conversation is about the wall and the cone before the capacity. Tell us the product and the turnover and we will point at the row that fits, even when it is not this one.

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 at 60% (PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets)
• aluminum sulfate at 50% (PVC, EPDM)
• calcium chloride at 40% (PVC, EPDM)
• ferrous sulfate at 20% (PVC, EPDM)
• magnesium chloride at 30% (PVC, EPDM)
• sodium carbonate at 30% (PVC, EPDM), and ozonated water up to 10 PPM (PVC, EPDM).The diesel-emissions chemistries are worth calling out together:
• DEF at 32.5% wants 316SS fittings and EPDM gaskets, while the related but more concentrated
• urea solution at 50% runs PP/PVC fittings with EPDM, so the wetted hardware changes even within the same family.Match the fitting and gasket material cal
• ethylene glycol (PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets)
• 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)
• 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)
• peracetic acid (316SS, Aflas), and
• zinc orthophosphate (PP/316SS, EPDM).If your application is on that list, do not force this tank; call 866-418-1777 or use the

Five hundred and fifty pounds, 176 inches, and a booked oversize move

This tank is moulded at Marked Tree, Arkansas, the short lane into the mid-South and the lower Midwest. The freight class reads OVS, an oversize mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600, and it shipments at 102 inches by 102 inches by 176 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 means the move is booked with a route, a window and an offload plan agreed in advance, and the width governs the yard: 102 inches across needs a gate, a clear approach and somewhere to turn. The 550 pound empty weight is the good news and the hazard in the same sentence. It makes the lift easy, and it makes the vessel something the wind can move long before anybody expects it to, so keep it strapped on the trailer, keep it strapped on the ground, and do not stand it until the stand is set, levelled and anchored. Then fill it with clean water, hold that 41,700 pound load, and read the top opening, the cone joint and the stand feet before any product arrives. Keep the water in it overnight and look again in the morning; a fault that hides under an hour of load rarely hides under twelve. The first fill is the only cheap time to find a problem, so do it in daylight with someone watching the base.