Snyder Industries 300 Gallon 304 Stainless Steel Supertainer IBC Tote Tank

The 300 against the 275 and the 330 beside it

The sheet puts three neighbours next to this tote and they are not variations on a theme, they are three different shapes holding roughly the same amount. This one is 300 gallons at 42 by 48 by 41.25 inches and 424 pounds. The 6984200B51306 listing is the same 300 gallons on the same shell at the same 424 pounds under a different part number. SII-6040001B97204 holds 275 gallons on a 46 by 46 inch square standing 62 inches tall at 354.2 pounds, and 6840000B97202 holds 330 gallons on that same 46 inch square at 70 inches and 335 pounds. Line those up and what you are actually choosing between is a low, wide, heavy steel vessel and a tall, narrow, much lighter one. The argument for this tote is almost entirely about the 41.25 inches. That is bench height rather than head height: the 22 inch manway can be opened, filled, sampled, inspected and cleaned by somebody standing on the floor, without a step and without a platform. It slides under a low mezzanine, fits in a bay with a roller door that a 70 inch vessel will not clear, and rides on a truck bed or a trailer without becoming the tallest thing on it. The price of that is weight and footprint: 424 pounds empty and a full 42 by 48 inches of floor, against 335 pounds on a 46 inch square for a vessel holding thirty more gallons. Decide on the constraint you actually have. Where the ceiling, the door or the reach is what binds, this is the right tote; where the floor is what binds, it is not. Run your turnover against the delivery quantity in the tank sizing calculator first, take the headspace from the tank sizing guide, and if the real question is drums against totes against a fixed tank, the container against tank buying guide answers it on turnover and handling.

Two 300s, a 275 and a 330

Three listings hold 300 gallons on the identical 42 by 48 by 41.25 inch shell at the identical 424 pounds, in two part series, and the sheet says nothing about what separates them. We print that and leave it alone; where an existing installation, a drawing or a purchasing standard names one of those part numbers, order that number and ask us to check the record against the part before it ships. The last two rows are the ones worth studying because they are genuinely different vessels. SII-6040001B97204 puts 275 gallons on a 46 inch square standing 62 inches, at 354.2 pounds, and 6840000B97202 puts 330 gallons on the same square at 70 inches and 335 pounds. Neither is described as stainless here and neither is merged into the steel family; they are what the sheet lists beside it. What they show is the shape choice. Both are around four inches wider each way than this tote is long, both stand between a foot and two and a half feet taller, and both weigh a hundred pounds or less than this one does. Tall and light suits a site with headroom and a hand truck. Low and heavy suits a site with a ceiling problem, a reach problem or a cleaning regime that wants the manway at waist height. The gallons are nearly the same across all five rows; the handling is not.

Not sure which one? Tell us the liquid, the site and the ceiling height at 866-418-1777, or request a written quote with freight to your ZIP.

The headspace over 300 gallons and the manway that breathes it

• Headspace and the vent: the 22 inch manway is listed as vented, and on a 41.25 inch vessel the air space above 300 gallons is shallow, which makes the vent path the thing that protects it. Every gallon drawn out through the 2 inch valve has to be replaced by air coming in through the top, and a tote filled to the manway has no cushion for a warm afternoon.
• The manway at working height: 22 inches of opening at 41.25 inches off the floor is the single most useful thing about this tote. A person reaches it standing, gets a light and an arm inside it, and rinses the vessel properly rather than approximately.
• The inlet: a 2 inch access port, exactly as listed. What couples to it depends on your delivery hose; tell us and we will confirm what the part carries.
• The outlet: a 2 inch 316 stainless ball valve, quarter turn, in the same corrosion-resistant family as the vessel it drains.
• Carrying the load below the valve: brackets under the valve, the reducer and the first hose length, never the outlet taking the weight.
• Limits: the sheet publishes no service temperature, no warranty, no pressure rating and no stacking load, and none is asserted on this page.

Where a low tote feeds a metering skid, the short distance between the valve and the pump is an advantage worth designing properly rather than wasting; the pump skid design guide for tank-fed dosing covers the frame, the drip pan and the leak detection.

Low-ceiling rooms and 300 gallon batches

Three hundred gallons under three and a half feet of height goes into rooms that will not take anything taller: process bays under a mezzanine, cold stores and chill rooms with a low soffit, mobile and containerised plant, pilot lines, laboratory scale-up areas, and food, beverage, dairy, cosmetic and specialty chemical production where the vessel is washed and reused rather than discarded. It is also the tote that rides best, because a 41.25 inch load keeps the centre of gravity low on a truck bed and leaves room above it. The recurring reason people come back to this height is not the gallons at all; it is that one person can open, fill, sample and clean it from the floor, every shift, without site equipment that has to be inspected and certified in its own right. Tell us what the 300 gallons will be, and check it in our chemical compatibility resource first; the gasket and the valve seat are specified from that answer.

424 pounds, class 125, a low shipment

The sheet gives the freight class as 125 and lists no NMFC number and no plant, so this page names no origin and no lane. Price the move to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. This is the easy one to receive: 42 by 48 inches on the floor and only 41.25 inches tall, so it clears low doors, fits under a trailer roof with room to spare and does not need the height check that the taller members of this family do. At 424 pounds it comes off with a forklift under the base, never a sling round the body and never a lift by the 22 inch manway. Set it level on continuous support where it will live, then fill it with clean water and hold the 2,502 pound load while you read the manway seal, the access port and the 2 inch valve joint all the way round. Drain it, dry it, and look inside with a light before any product goes near it. If the floor beneath it would have to be recovered after a spill, read the Captor containment comparison before assuming the room is adequate, and where the contents are a regulated waste, the secondary containment rule for hazardous waste tank systems gives the leak detection options and the inspection cadence. Keep the first water test photographed and dated; on a vessel that will be cleaned and returned to service for years, that photograph is the baseline every later inspection gets read against. Chalk the full-water line on the outside after the first fill; it is the level every later reading gets checked against.