Snyder Industries 220 Gallon HDPE Stackable IBC Tote Tank

The tote that stacks without a cage

The family question on this sheet is what carries the load when one tote sits on another. A caged tote puts a steel frame around a thin bottle and the frame does the stacking; this one is listed as a non-caged tote and it stacks on its own molded body, which is why it weighs 211 pounds empty where a bottle of the same volume weighs a fraction of that. That buys three things. There is no cage to rust, to trap spilled product in its members, or to be condemned by an inspector while the vessel inside it is sound. There is nothing between the wall and a wash-down hose, so the outside cleans like a tank rather than like a birdcage. And the whole unit is one piece, so the thing you strap, wash, stack and inspect is the thing that holds the liquid. Against that, the sheet asks you to buy the wall rather than the frame: 1.9 is the rating, 3486 pounds is what it allows inside, and the 45 inch square footprint is what you have to find floor for. Plan the stack before the order. Know what goes underneath, know whether the lower unit is full or empty when the upper one lands, and know the reach of whatever lifts it, because 1835 pounds of water in a 48.5 inch tall body is a high load once it is on top of another one. Then check that 220 gallons is the right increment at all: run your turnover against your draw in the tank sizing calculator, and take the working reserve and the expansion room from the tank sizing guide.

Four ways to hold 220 gallons and less

Three totes on this sheet hold 220 gallons and they are separated by inches and by pounds. The SII-6630023B97204 is a shade wider at 46 inches and listed at 243.1 pounds, and the black SII-6630023B97205 is the lowest and lightest of the three at 46.25 inches tall and 188 pounds, which is the one to look at when daylight on the product is the worry or when a low overall height matters more than the square footprint. This tote sits between them: a true 45 inch square base, 48.5 inches of height, 211 pounds. Buy it when the footprint is what you are planning around, because a square base is the one that indexes predictably against a wall, a rack opening or another unit, and the white wall lets an operator see the level rather than dipping it. Below it the 120 gallon SII-6570000B96002 is the half step, 42.5 inches square and only 32.25 inches tall at 105 pounds, for a bench-height install or a lighter product. Above it the SII-6984000B51318 is not a plastic tote at all: it is a 245 gallon 304 stainless steel Supertainer with a side drain at 384 pounds, which is the buy when the product wants steel rather than polyethylene, and whatever holds true of it holds on its own sheet, not this one.

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Six inches of lid, no vent named, and 2 inches out

• Vent: the sheet names a 6 inch lid and says nothing about a vent in it, so settle that at order rather than in the aisle. A closed tote drained through a 2 inch outlet has to take air in as the liquid leaves, and a body designed to carry another unit on top of it is not a body you want working against a vacuum. Order a vented lid or fit a breather matched to the pump or the gravity draw, and keep its screen clear.
• Headspace: 220 gallons is the rated volume and the sheet publishes no separate fill line. A 6 inch opening is a small window on a 45 inch square surface, so the air above the liquid is easy to lose track of; leave it there for warming and expansion and never fill to the rim.
• Outlet: one 2 inch outlet, as the sheet lists it. No inlet is listed anywhere on the sheet, so the lid is the fill point. Two inches will gravity-drain a tote of this height into a drum, a mixer or a day tank at a useful rate, which is most of what a tote is for.
• Handling: the sheet lists the tote as stackable and gives no base detail, no pocket dimensions and no lift points, so how it will be moved on your floor is a question to settle with us at order rather than an assumption to make on delivery day. Nothing on this page asserts a lift method the sheet does not give.
• Limits: 120 F / 48 C, and 3486 pounds of contents at a specific gravity of 1.9. No warranty term is published.

The discipline on a tote is different from a tank because a tote moves. Every move is a chance to load the outlet, so close the valve, cap the outlet, and put the cap on the chain rather than in a pocket. Wash the outside as well as the inside, because a tote is handled by people and a residue on the wall is somebody's glove. Log the product each unit has held, since a tote that changes service without a record is a tote nobody will trust later. And read the level while it is on the floor, never while it is stacked.

Drum replacement on a plant floor, and the waste rules that follow

A 220 gallon tote is bought to get off drums without going to bulk: consolidating four drums of one process fluid into one vessel, holding a wash or rinse solution beside a line, feeding a metering pump or a mixer at a working height, collecting used fluid for disposal, and standing as a movable reserve where a plumbed tank cannot go. The decision between a tote and a tank is a real one and it is worth making on numbers rather than habit; the container versus tank comparison lays out where each tier belongs, and the drum, tote and bulk tank break-even analysis does the annual volume and turnover arithmetic that decides it. Where the fluid in the tote is a hazardous waste, the containment and inspection obligations are not optional and not a matter of judgement: 40 CFR 264.193 sets out the secondary containment requirement, the leak detection options and the inspection cadence, and the secondary containment article works through what that means for a tank system in practice. If the answer points at a contained vessel instead of a tote on a pallet, the 110 percent containment comparison is where the double wall option gets weighed against the alternatives.

What this tank is listed to hold

Each line is a liquid the resin is rated for, at the concentration shown, with the fitting and gasket to order. Follow the link for the full rating, or search the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• sulfuric acid at 98% sits right against this envelope and is the canonical reason you need the full 1.9 rating, while a light fluid like
• DEF at 32.5% leaves wide weight margin. Compatible chemistries with their reference concentration and the recommended fitting and gasket materi
• hydrochloric acid (37%, PVC, Viton)
• phosphoric acid (85%, PVC, Viton)
• hydrofluoric acid (48%, PP or PVC, Viton)
• hydrofluosilicic acid (26%, PP or PVC, Viton)
• hydrogen peroxide (50%, PVC, Viton)
• sodium hypochlorite (under 16.5%, PVC, Viton)
• peracetic acid (30%, 316SS, Aflas)
• acetic acid (60%, PP or PVC, EPDM)
• ferric chloride (50%, PVC, EPDM)
• ferric sulfate (60%, PVC, EPDM)
• ferrous sulfate (20%, PVC, EPDM)
• aluminum sulfate (50%, PVC, EPDM)
• polyaluminum chloride (PVC, EPDM)
• calcium chloride (40%, PVC, EPDM)
• magnesium chloride (30%, PVC, EPDM)
• sodium carbonate (30%, PVC, EPDM)
• potassium carbonate (50%, PVC, EPDM)
• potassium hydroxide (saturated, PVC, EPDM)
• sodium bisulfate (PVC or PP, EPDM)
• sodium bisulfite (PVC or PP, EPDM)
• sodium thiosulfate (40%, PVC, EPDM)
• zinc orthophosphate (PP or 316SS, EPDM)
• propylene glycol (PP or 316SS, EPDM)
• ethylene glycol (100%, PVC, EPDM), DEF (32.5%, 316SS, EPDM)
• urea solution (50%, PP or PVC, EPDM), and ozonated water (up to 10 PPM, PVC, EPDM). Browse the full

Lincoln at 211 pounds, and why this one is not an oversize load

The SII-66345 is molded at Lincoln, Nebraska and the sheet gives the freight class as LTL with NMFC 156600-04, which is the useful difference between a tote and a tank: this one rides inside a trailer on ordinary LTL freight instead of being quoted as a permitted load. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Because it is LTL, the delivery question is the dock rather than the route: confirm whether the truck has a liftgate, whether there is a dock at all, and who takes 211 pounds off the tail if there is not. Then, before the unit goes into service, fill it with water on the floor it will work on, leave it standing, and read the base and the outlet before anything expensive goes in. Number the unit on the outside the day it lands; on a floor with several totes, the one you cannot identify is the one that gets filled with the wrong thing. Keep the delivery paperwork with the tank; the serial number on the shell is what a warranty claim starts from.