Snyder Industries 5000 Gallon 15 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank

Two weights for the same five thousand gallons

Start with the family, because this sheet lists three tanks at 5,000 gallons on the same 102 inch circle and the differences between them are not obvious from a photograph. This one is listed at 166 inches tall and 1,300 pounds empty. SII-8050200N42 is listed at 176 inches and 1,300 pounds. SII-8050200N43 and SII-8050200N49 are both listed at 176 inches and 550 pounds, the second of them in black. The sheet explains none of that, so here is what can honestly be said: this is one of the two heavy listings in the group and it is the shortest of the three at 166 inches. If your building has a hard ceiling, a crane hook at a fixed height or a doorway that governs, the shorter shell is the one to check first, and ten inches at the top of a fourteen foot vessel is often exactly the amount by which a plan fails. If the height is not the constraint, the choice is between a heavy shell and a light one, and the sensible rule is to buy the wall the duty calls for rather than the heaviest one available. Ask us and we will be straight about it. Beneath the choice sits the same structural fact for all of them: a cone bottom tank has no flat floor, and this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt and no ring, so the support is a separate item settled before the tank is ordered. The cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix works that through across makers, and we will confirm what fits this part number rather than printing one the sheet does not carry. Design the foundation to the loads and not to a drawing: 1,300 pounds of empty tank, 41,700 pounds of water and 62,550 pounds at the rating all arrive through the stand's feet into a 102 inch circle, and that is engineered ground, level and uniform, with restraint and an honest look at wind exposure on an outdoor installation. Settle the volume before the structure with the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard a warming or gassing product needs from the tank sizing guide; at this size the headspace is the cheapest insurance on the whole installation.

Four 5000s and the 4600 below them

Every row in this table shares the 102 inch circle, which is the most useful thing about the family: the pad, the bund, the aisle and the stand footprint are one design across all five, and only the height and the shell change. That means you can settle the civil work once and still have four vessels to choose from, which is rarely true of a tank range. Within the 5,000s the spread is ten inches of height and two weight classes. This tank is the short one and one of the two heavy ones. SII-8050200N42 carries a cross-link name at the same weight and ten inches more height. SII-8050200N43 and SII-8050200N49 are the light listings at 550 pounds, the second one in black, and they are the ones to look at when the duty does not need the heavier wall and the installation would rather lift 550 pounds than 1,300. The last row is the step down in volume: SII-8050100N43 at 4,600 gallons, 164 inches and 470 pounds, and it is worth a look whenever the difference between 4,600 and 5,000 gallons does not change your delivery schedule, because it is both shorter and much lighter. Read the table in that order every time: circle first, which is fixed here; then height against the building; then wall against the product; then volume against the delivery interval. Taken the other way round, people buy a vessel that does not fit the room. If the cone angle itself is still open, settle it before the part number with the buyer's guide comparing 15, 30 and 45 degree cones.

Comparing across brands too? Call 866-418-1777; we carry Norwesco, Snyder, Chem-Tainer, Enduraplas and Bushman and will say which one fits, or price the freight first.

Eighteen inches of access at the top of a 166 inch shell

• Air first: the sheet gives the top opening as 18 inches and does not describe it as vented. Read that literally. On a vessel being drawn off a shallow cone the air path is what protects the wall, so specify the vent as part of the installation, size it to the faster of the fill rate and the draw rate, and route it where the vapour is meant to go. Do not assume a fitting the sheet does not name.
• Access: 18 inches of opening at 166 inches, plus the stand. That is a fixed ladder, a platform and a fall protection plan drawn with the structure rather than added afterwards, and the fill line belongs at a coupling at working level so nobody carries a hose to the top.
• The discharge: no outlet, no inlet and no bulkhead appears on this sheet. The cone ends in a discharge the sheet does not dimension, so no number is printed here. Give us the line size, the valve and the product, and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• Supporting what hangs below: valve, reducer and the first run of pipe are carried on steelwork off the stand, never on the cone, with a flexible connector at the first joint. Sixty-two thousand five hundred and fifty pounds of rated contents sitting above a joint is not a load to add dead weight to.
• Angle and drainage: 15 degrees from the name, no cone angle field on the sheet. A shallow cone drains a free-flowing liquid completely and holds onto anything that packs or settles hard; if your product is the second kind, the honest answer is a steeper angle rather than this vessel.
• Ratings: a specific gravity rating of 1.5, 41,700 pounds of water at 5,000 gallons, 62,550 pounds of max contents and a service limit of 120 F / 48 C. No warranty term is published on this sheet.

Decide the whole top layout on paper before anything is drilled, because the fill, the vent, the level device and the return line all want the best position and rework at fourteen feet is expensive in a way rework at bench height is not: the top fitting placement guide sets the sequence out properly. Name the product when you order so the gasket, the valve and any fitting we add are matched to it.

Continuous process duty at five thousand gallons

At 5,000 gallons a cone bottom tank is usually part of a process rather than a place to put something. It goes into blending and make-up in chemical manufacturing, liquid fertiliser and crop input storage at agricultural retail, sludge thickening and holding at treatment works, mineral and wash plant slurry duty, food and beverage processing where the vessel is emptied and cleaned between runs, and buffer storage between two stages running at different rates. The heavy shell and the moderate height make it a sensible choice where the vessel is going to work hard and be kept indoors or in a frame, and the shallow cone is right where the product flows freely and the tank simply has to drain completely at the end of a run. The thing to decide before the order is not the tank; it is whether the building, the stand and the access can carry a vessel of this size properly. Almost every difficult cone bottom installation we see went wrong at that point and not at the tank.

Which liquids, at what concentration, with which fitting

Each entry pairs a rated liquid with its concentration limit and the fitting and gasket to order alongside the tank. The full rating sits on the linked page and in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• acetic acid )
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50% (PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets)
• Calcium Chloride at 40% (PVC, EPDM)
• DEF at 32.5% (note 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets - it breaks the PVC default)
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20% (PVC, EPDM)
• Magnesium Chloride at 30% (PVC, EPDM)
• Sodium Carbonate at 30% (PVC, EPDM)
• Urea Solution at 50% (split PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets), and Ozonated Water (PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets).
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol
• Sodium Bisulfate
• Sodium Bisulfite
• Sodium Thiosulfate and
• Zinc Orthophosphate.The oxidizers and strong acids demand Viton gaskets:
• Hydrochloric Acid
• Hydrofluoric Acid
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid
• Hydrogen Peroxide
• Phosphoric Acid
• Sodium Hypochlorite and
• Sulfuric Acid (on CPVC fittings).
• Peracetic Acid goes further still, needing 316SS fittings with Aflas gaskets.If your service involves any of these, call 866-418-1777 for the 1.5 SG equiv

Oversize from Arkansas at 1,300 pounds

This tank is moulded at Marked Tree, Arkansas, the short lane into the mid-South, the Gulf and the lower Midwest and a long one to either coast. The sheet gives the freight class as OVS, an oversize mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-03, and it shipments at 102 inches by 102 inches by 166 inches, which means 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 rather than an order: route, permits, window and offload equipment are agreed before the tank leaves the plant, and at 102 inches across the yard gate and the turning circle matter as much as the dock. Have the machine on site and the stand set, levelled and anchored before the trailer arrives. Lift by the body with slings, never by the top opening, and keep the vessel restrained from the moment it comes off the deck. Stand it, secure it, then fill it with clean water and hold that 41,700 pound load while somebody reads the top fitting, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad in that order. Do the water test before the pipework is finished rather than after, because every joint you have not yet made is a joint you do not have to break to fix a problem the water finds. Write the fill date on the manway with a paint marker; it answers the first question anyone asks about a tank.