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    Formula for a horizontal cylinder

    Hello all,

    I'm working on a project for work and I'm stuck. We have a 500 gallon cylinder that is on it's side that we store oil in. The manufacturer provided us with a printed table that will give us the volume based on whatever the reading is. What I'm trying to do is create a sheet with the formula so that all we have to do is input the measurement and get the volume without referring to the sheet. I think I found the formula, but I can't get it to work in Excel. Can someone help out? A fresh set of eyes always works wonders.

    volume= R squared cos to the power of -1 (R-H/R) - (R-H) square root 2RH-H squared.
    R would be the radius, H would be the height.

    My tank is 64" long with a radius of 24". According to our chart, a measurement of 40" would mean that we have 446.43 gallons of oil in our 500 gallon tank.

    Everytime I get the formula to work, the answer is incorrect. When it doesn't work, I get the error #NAME?

    Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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    Re: Formula for a horizontal cylinder

    A
    B
    C
    1
    rad
    24
    2
    len
    64
    3
    4
    dep
    vol [gal]
    5
    0
    0.0
    B5: =len * (rad^2 * ACOS(1 - dep/rad) - (rad - dep) * SQRT(2 * rad * dep - dep^2)) / 231
    6
    10
    75.7
    7
    20
    197.7
    8
    30
    329.6
    9
    40
    446.4
    10
    48
    501.3
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    Re: Formula for a horizontal cylinder

    Awesome.
    Thank you so much. That worked perfectly. I had no idea where I was messing up.

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    Re: Formula for a horizontal cylinder

    You're welcome.

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