Snyder Industries 22 Gallon ASTM XLPE Black Heavy Duty Vertical Storage Tank

Lincoln, Nebraska and a class 250 lane

Freight decides small tanks, so take the freight first. This one is molded at Lincoln, Nebraska, which is the middle of the country and a short lane to almost everywhere in it, and it moves as freight at class 250 as the sheet lists it, shipping at 18 inches by 18 inches by 23 inches. That is the lowest class and the smallest shipment in this group, and the reason is density: 9 pounds in a box under two feet on a side is still the densest arrangement here relative to the space it takes, and class follows density. Price the lane before anything else in the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. The practical consequence is that this tank is worth buying two or three of at once, or adding to an order that is already moving, because the shipment is small enough that consolidation actually changes what you pay. Receiving is a person, not a machine. Siting is simple and still worth thinking about: full of water there are 183 pounds on an 18 inch circle, and a rotationally molded floor bears on every part of the surface it touches, so it wants a flat continuous shelf, slab or stand rather than two rails or a pallet with a missing board; that load-path idea is the same one the concrete pad sizing guide sets out for a slab, scaled to a bench. At 23 inches tall it is stable, but it is also light enough to be knocked, so it gets a bracket or a strap wherever it lives near traffic. Check 22 gallons against your draw and your refill interval in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve and the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 18 by 18 by 23 inch shell, four grades

Everything in this shell weighs 9 pounds and holds 22 gallons, so the only question is the wall. Take this one when the liquid wants both the cross-linked wall and no light: those are the two things it has that the others do not have together. The N42 is the same cross-linked wall in natural white, and on a tank this small being able to see the level through the shell is a real feature, not a preference; the N51 is the black tank in the high density wall its own sheet names; and a high density tank on the same part stem is stocked too, rated as its own sheet says. Which wall a given chemistry actually needs is argued out in crosslinked versus high density polyethylene for chemistry duty, and it is worth ten minutes before ordering, because on a tank this cheap the wall is most of what you are choosing. The one neighbor here is the 1541000N51, a black 30 gallon tank 23 inches across and 23 inches tall at 18 pounds: same height, wider base, a third more volume, and a different footprint to find. If the shelf is 18 inches deep, this is the tank.

Still deciding between these? Freight to your ZIP often settles it; the wider tanks ship differently. Or call 866-418-1777 and we will walk the table with you.

The lid is the only opening the sheet names

• Access: the tank is 23 inches tall, so the lid is at bench height and reached standing, with no ladder and no fall exposure. The sheet names one manway or lid in the outlet field and gives no diameter for it, so the opening hardware is confirmed at order rather than assumed here. Nothing about its size is printed on this page, because nothing about its size is on the sheet.
• Outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 1 Manway / Lid and publishes no bottom fitting diameter, material, thread or gasket. Give us the liquid and the pipe size you are tying into and the draw-off is specified with the order.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

With the top opening unsized and the bottom fitting open, this is a tank you specify rather than one you configure from a page, and that is not a defect at this size; it is how small vessels get matched to real jobs. What does not change is the physics. Under two feet of liquid there is almost no suction head, so anything that has to move the contents out is either a pump mounted below the tank and gravity primed or a suction tube dropped in through the top; a dip tube and a small pump on a bracket is the arrangement most shops end up with. Fill down a tube rather than into open air, run any vent outdoors on a liquid that fumes, and keep the lid closed between fills so vapor stays in and dust stays out. Name the one liquid on the wall, because a small black tank is the easiest thing in a plant to mistake for another small black tank, and put a light inside at every opening to read the wall above the liquid line. Where it freezes, a full tank this small freezes fast, so bring it indoors or keep it warm rather than trying to trace it.

Where a 22 gallon tank beats a drum

Twenty-two gallons is the size that replaces a part-drum with something you can actually see into, clean out and mount. It is the day tank under a small metering pump, the acid or caustic reservoir on a plating line, the mix vessel in a greenhouse feed room, the catch tank under a sampler, the reservoir on a trailer or a skid where weight is the constraint, and the tank a lab or a shop puts on a bench because it is the biggest vessel one person can move empty. The black wall keeps light off a liquid that light degrades, at the cost of hiding the level, so a float or a dip stick through the top is the gauge. Where a site requires secondary containment even around a vessel this small, the Captor double wall freeboard guide shows what containment costs in usable volume, and a spill pallet under this tank follows the same arithmetic. Honest limitation: with no published fittings and no published lid size, this tank does not arrive plumbed, and if you need it plumbed on day one, say so on the order.

Nine pounds, class 250, and the question to ask the carrier

The 1530000N48 leaves Lincoln, Nebraska shipping at 18 inches by 18 inches by 23 inches and moves as freight at class 250 as the sheet lists it, the lowest class in this group. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. The question worth asking before you order is how many you want, because a 9 pound shipment this small rides almost as cheaply in threes as in ones, and the second tank is usually the one that makes a system work: one in service, one being cleaned. Receiving needs a person and a flat spot, nothing more. Look the shipment over before you sign; a small tank takes its damage on the truck, and a scuff on the base is worth noting on the delivery ticket. Water test before product even at this size: fill to the lid, leave it a shift where a spill costs nothing, read the base and the seam, then drain and dry. The last thing to do is the thing nobody does: write on the tank what is in it, in paint, before the first liquid goes in. Write the outlet fitting size and material on the site plan; the replacement is ordered by those two words.