Snyder Industries 5500 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

The duty first: batching at 5,500 gallons where nothing is allowed to stay behind

Start with the work, because the work is why a cone costs more than a flat bottomed tank of the same 5,500 gallons. This vessel is bought by plants that empty and refill the same tank on a schedule: a liquid fertiliser blender turning over a mix between orders, a water or wastewater works making up polymer or coagulant, a manufacturer batching to a recipe, a wash and rinse operation that has to change product without carrying the last one forward. On a flat floor, the last inches of a 45,870 pound column sit in a ring and become somebody's disposal problem. On this shape the liquid keeps running toward one low point until the vessel is genuinely empty, and at 5,500 gallons that difference is a line on a budget rather than a nuisance. The duty decides the rest of the specification. This listing is rated 1.5 with 68,805 pounds of max contents, which is the honest buy when the product is no denser than water or only modestly heavier; paying for a higher rating you will never load is money spent on paperwork. Then deal with the ground, because on a cone the ground is the part that gets under-built. There is no flat floor on this tank. It cannot stand on its own bottom, and this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern, so we print none. The stand is a separate item with its own lead time, specified and set before the tank arrives. What the sheet does give you is the envelope and the loads: 241 inches of shell above whatever holds it, 1,500 pounds of empty tank, 45,870 pounds of water and 68,805 pounds at the rating, arriving at a handful of stand feet inside a 90 inch circle rather than spreading across a slab. Size the volume before any of that is poured with the tank sizing calculator, take the freeboard discipline from the tank sizing guide, and settle the support properly against the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix before a part number is fixed.

Four listings on one 90 inch circle, plus a wider 5000 and a squat 6000

The top four rows are one shell. Same 5,500 gallons, same 90 inch circle, same 241 inch height, and the sheet separates them by empty weight and by the name it prints on each: 1,500 pounds on this listing and on the black one, 2,000 pounds on the two the maker calls heavy duty. Heavy duty is a name word, not a construction description, and this sheet offers no account of the weight difference beyond the figure itself, so none is invented here. What you can act on is your own product. This listing is rated 1.5 with 68,805 pounds of max contents. If your liquid is heavier than that allows, the 2,000 pound listings are the ones to price; if it is not, this is the tank and the difference is yours to keep. Colour is the other split in the group and it is a real one: this is the natural white listing, and a translucent wall lets an operator read a level from the walkway without a gauge. The bottom two rows change the shape of the problem instead. 8050200C75501 holds 5,000 gallons on a 102 inch circle at 166 inches, so it buys almost the same volume out of six feet less height by taking more floor. 5280200N40 goes further, 6,000 gallons at only 136 inches on a 142 inch circle, which is the answer when the ceiling is fixed and the yard is not. That trade, height against footprint, decides most cone purchases before price does. The long read on this capacity is the 5,500 gallon cone bottom tank buyer's guide.

Need two of them? Request a written quote for the pair with freight to your ZIP, or call 866-418-1777 and we will price the truck once.

The drain is the whole point, and this sheet does not size it

• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid on this sheet. That names an opening and not a discharge, and we print it exactly as it reads rather than converting it into a pipe size. No outlet dimension, no thread, no bulkhead and no valve is published or claimed. Tell us the line size you need to land, the valve type and the product, and we will confirm what this part number carries before anything is ordered.
• The discharge path in practice: on a cone the outlet is the low point of the whole vessel and everything hangs from it. Carry the valve, any reducer and the first run of pipe on their own steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, and put a flexible connector at the first joint so pump vibration stays out of the wall. With 68,805 pounds of rated contents standing above it, the bottom of a full column is the wrong place for dead weight.
• Pump and suction: a 90 inch circle 241 inches tall drains as a tall narrow column, and the last of it arrives at the outlet quickly. Size the pump to the line and not to the tank, and keep the suction run short and straight off the cone so the vessel is not fighting its own plumbing at the end of a batch.
• The cone angle: this sheet publishes no cone angle field and the product name carries none, so we state none. If the angle matters to your product, ask and we will check the part number before you order rather than guess from a photograph.
• Access on top: an 18 inch threaded vented manway, 241 inches up plus the stand. The vent arrives with the manway on this sheet rather than being specified separately, which matters on a vessel being pumped out, because a wall that cannot take air in takes the load instead. Keep it clear and never blank, tape or wrap it to control an odour.
• Inlet, lid size, lug and flange counts, warranty and NMFC: none of them is published on this sheet, and none is claimed. The ratings are a specific gravity of 1.5, 45,870 pounds of water at 5,500 gallons, 68,805 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

Reading a level in a 241 inch column is a decision of its own, and the translucent wall only gets you so far when the tank is outdoors and the operator is not: the level gauge selection guide for chemical service sets the four common technologies against each other. Where the tank stands over ground, a floor or a drain that would have to be recovered after a release, containment is a separate question from the tank and deserves its own answer: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained polyethylene route against the alternatives.

Who buys 5,500 gallons of 1.5 rated cone

This size sits at the top of what a single moulded polyethylene cone will hold, so the buyers are operations that had outgrown the next size down and did not want a second tank and a second set of plumbing. Agricultural retail blending is the largest group: a season's worth of turnover through one vessel, different mixes week to week, and a genuine need to empty between them. Municipal and industrial water treatment is the next, where make-up and day tanks for treatment chemistry have to run down to nothing before the next batch. After that come manufacturing batch preparation, food and beverage duty where the tank is washed between products, and buffer volume between two process stages that run at different rates. One honest caution belongs to the shape rather than to the tank. Twenty feet of column on a 90 inch circle stratifies more readily than a wide shallow vessel, so if your product separates or settles, the draw point and the mixing arrangement matter more here than the capacity does. Say so when you enquire. The other caution is the service limit: 100 F / 37 C is what this sheet publishes, and a hot fill or an outdoor black-body day in the south is exactly where that figure stops being theoretical. Name the liquid, the temperature and the turnover when you call and we will work the specification from there rather than from the gallon figure alone. Whatever it is, look it up in our chemical compatibility database before you specify the gasket and the fittings, because the chemistry drives the trim rather than the tank.

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 ), Aluminum Sulfate (50%, PVC, EPDM, see
• aluminum sulfate ), Calcium Chloride (40%, PVC, EPDM, see
• calcium chloride ), DEF (32.5%, 316SS fittings, EPDM, see
• DEF ), Ferrous Sulfate (20%, PVC, EPDM, see
• ferrous sulfate ), Magnesium Chloride (30%, PVC, EPDM, see
• magnesium chloride ), Sodium Carbonate (30%, PVC, EPDM, see
• sodium carbonate ), Urea Solution (50%, PP/PVC, EPDM, see
• urea solution ), and Ozonated Water (up to 10 PPM, PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets; ozonated-water guidance is covered in our Chemical Compatibility Database
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol and
• Sodium Thiosulfate.Note one gasket exception: most of these run EPDM gaskets, but hydrofluosilicic acid requires Viton (FKM) gaskets instead.Always confirm a

Fifteen hundred pounds, class 300, Lincoln to your yard

This tank is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the sheet gives Nebraska as the state it ships from, which puts the plains and the Midwest on the short lane and both coasts on the long one. Freight class reads 300, a numeric class beside an LTL ship mode, and no NMFC number is published. It moves at 90 inches by 90 inches by 241 inches and 1,500 pounds, which is a light tank on a very large ticket, and that combination is normal on hollow moulded goods that fill a trailer without weighing much. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. It travels lying down and is stood up at your end, and that standing operation is the part of the day that goes wrong when nobody has planned it. This sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is stated here; agree the offload equipment and the window with us before the truck is booked. Have the stand set, levelled and anchored first, because a cone bottom tank with nowhere to stand is a tank lying in your yard taking up the space you needed. This sheet lists no lifting lugs, so do not assume any: lift under the body, never by the manway, and keep the shell restrained the moment it is upright, because twenty feet of empty tank takes wind at a speed that surprises people. Then prove the installation with clean water rather than product, hold the 45,870 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge in that order, and leave it standing full overnight before a single gallon of product goes near it. Photograph the outlet fitting from below before the pipe goes on; a slow weep is easier to compare against than to describe.