Snyder Industries 6000 Gallon XLPE Cone Bottom Tank

Lightest of the quad, and the products it is bought for

This is the listing most buyers of a 6,000 gallon cone actually need, and the sheet makes the case in a single line: a specific gravity rating of 1.5 with 75,060 pounds of max contents. Water is 8.34 pounds per gallon and fills this shell at 50,040 pounds, so the rating leaves real margin over water-weight product, which is what the great majority of these vessels hold. Treated water, wash water, make-up solutions, polymer, most blends. Beside it on the same sheet sit 5280200N42 and 5280200N48, both 1,250 pounds, both named heavy duty by the maker, each carrying its own higher rating and its own higher max contents figure on its own sheet. Those figures are the only thing the sheets put behind the name. No wall thickness, no layer count and no construction difference is printed anywhere on them, so none is stated here, and the honest way to read the pair is that you buy the heavier listing when your product is denser than water and not otherwise. The fourth part number, 5280200N46, is this same 1,100 pounds at this same rating in black, so between those two the only field that moves is colour. Natural white is the indoor shell, bought so that somebody can read a liquid line through the wall rather than trust an instrument alone; black is the shell for a tank that stands outdoors in daylight. Decide on where the vessel will live and the choice makes itself. Nothing in this family includes a stand. No legs, no skirt, no support ring and no bolt pattern appear on the sheet, and a cone bottom tank cannot stand on its own bottom, so the structure under it is a separate purchase specified and set before the tank arrives, and no stand height, rated load or stand material is stated on this page. Work it out with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and ask us to confirm the fit against this part number. Then do the arithmetic the building forces: stand, plus 136 inches of shell, plus clearance above the manway, with separate room under the cone for whatever the discharge feeds, all measured down from the lowest fixed thing over the spot. Settle the volume first with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Same circle, same height, two ratings and two colours

Read the top four rows as one tank with two decisions attached. Every dimension is identical across them, which means the pad, the stand envelope, the bund, the aisle and the headroom are all settled before you have chosen a part number, and a late change to the rating or the colour does not send the civil drawing back for revision. That is more useful than it sounds on a project where the product specification lands after the groundwork has started. The bottom two rows are the other shape of the same problem. 7040000N40 puts 5,500 gallons on a 90 inch circle at 241 inches, and 7180000N40 puts 6,500 gallons on that circle at 273 inches for 2,100 pounds. They trade floor for height. This shell trades height for floor, standing 136 inches tall on a circle 142 inches across, which is a squat vessel by any measure and the reason it goes into buildings the tall tanks cannot enter. There is a second, quieter advantage to the wide shape and it matters if your product will not stay mixed: a shallow vessel stratifies less readily than a slender column, so a blend holds together better in this tank than in the two narrow ones on the sheet. The cost is floor area and an aisle around nearly twelve feet of circle. For the longer version of this decision, the complete buyer's guide for a cone bottom tank at this capacity covers the ground a spec sheet cannot.

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What the top of this tank carries, and what hangs under the cone

• The lid and its vent: the access this sheet publishes is an 18 inch threaded vented manway, with the vent part of the fitting rather than a separate item. Get the order of operations right and the wall never has a bad day: air in at the top at least as fast as liquid out at the bottom. Size the air path to the faster of your fill rate and your draw rate, keep it clear, and never blank, tape or paint it.
• Working height: the manway sits at 136 inches plus the stand, so plan the platform or fixed ladder and the fall protection in the same drawing as the structure, and bring the fill to a coupling at working level rather than up the side of the shell. The sheet notes ladder lugs.
• The outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 13. That is the field value, printed exactly as it reads. It is not a pipe size, a thread or a valve and none of those is claimed here. Give us the line size, the valve type and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries before it is ordered.
• Below the cone: valve, reducer and the first run of pipe on their own steelwork off the stand, never on the tank, with a flexible connector at the first joint. At 75,060 pounds of rated contents, the low point of a full vessel is the wrong place to hang dead weight.
• The cone: published at 30 degrees, which moves a free-flowing liquid toward one point and will hold onto material that packs. If your product consolidates when it sits, say so when you enquire rather than after the first changeover.
• What the sheet leaves blank: no inlet, no separate lid size, no warranty term and no NMFC number; 1 flange line is noted. The published ratings are a specific gravity of 1.5, 50,040 pounds of water at 6,000 gallons, 75,060 pounds of max contents and a limit of 100 F / 37 C.

Two things are cheaper to settle now than after the first fill. How the level is read, because even a natural white wall only tells you so much and the wrong instrument is confidently wrong all year: the level gauge selection guide for chemical service compares radar, ultrasonic, hydrostatic and magnetostrictive on their failure modes. And what happens under the tank after a release, which is a containment question rather than a tank question: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained route against the alternatives before a bund is poured around the wrong thing.

Make-up water, polymer and crop input blending

The lower rating and the squat shell put this tank in the middle of ordinary plant life, which is why the lighter listings outsell the heavy duty ones. Polymer and coagulant make-up at a water or wastewater works, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer, process and treated water holding that still has to drain fully, batch preparation and intermediate storage in manufacturing, wash and rinse water systems emptied between runs, and day tank duty feeding a pump at a steady rate. What every one of them has in common is a changeover, and the changeover is where the cone earns its keep: at 30 degrees the vessel keeps draining toward one point rather than leaving a ring of product on a flat floor, so a product change is a rinse instead of a shovel and a skip. At 1,100 pounds empty this is also the easiest tank in the family to handle on installation day, and on a vessel nearly twelve feet across the handling is the part of the project most likely to go wrong. The natural white shell suits an indoor position, where being able to see the liquid line settles arguments an instrument can start. Whatever the liquid is, look it up in our chemical compatibility reference before a gasket or a valve is specified.

Listed chemical service for this shell

The maker's list for this resin: each liquid, the concentration it is rated to, and the fitting and gasket that go on the order. Verify your own service on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic Acid at 60% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Calcium Chloride at 40% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) at 32.5% - 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Magnesium Chloride at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Urea Solution at 50% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol and
• Sodium Thiosulfate all with PVC or PP wetted hardware and EPDM gaskets.
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid also needs the 1.9 SG tank, and it differs in that it requires Viton gaskets rather than EPDM - worth flagging if you are in fluoride or wa

Eleven hundred pounds, class four hundred, a wide load in a narrow gate

Lincoln, Nebraska is where this one is moulded and Nebraska is the origin state the sheet gives, which puts the central lanes on the short haul and both coasts on the long one. The freight class reads 400, a numeric class rather than a mode, and no NMFC number is published. The shipping size measures 142 inches by 142 inches by 136 inches at 1,100 pounds: a big, light package that takes trailer space rather than weight, which is why the class reads the way it does on a tank this light. Run your own ZIP through the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. The width is the number to check before the truck is booked rather than on the day it arrives. Eleven feet ten inches across governs your gate, your yard and your turning circle, and the place a wide shipment gets stuck is the entrance, not the dock. The sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, and this page states none; settle the offload equipment and the delivery window with us before the booking is made. Set, level and anchor the stand first, because a cone bottom tank with nowhere to stand is a tank lying in your yard taking up the space you needed. Sling under the body, never by the manway, and keep it restrained once it is upright. Then fill it with clean water, hold the 50,040 pound load, and read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the ground around the pad in daylight before anything is connected. Chalk the full-water line on the outside after that first fill; it is the level every later reading gets checked against. Check the strap tension a week after the first fill; a tank settles a little, and the strap that was tight is loose.