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If you are trying to buy a metal tank for storing potable water then it will almost alway be made out of stainless steel. However, when it comes to plumbing with metal you are normally going to see copper. As a side not it seems like breweries as well as whiskey, scotch and bourbon distilleries seem to prefer copper tanks and pipes while wineries, vodka and rum seem to choose tanks and pipes made from stainless steel. It appears to me that copper can do both jobs yet copper tanks are nowhere to be found when it comes to home use. Why is that?

Copper is not often used in new construction anymore, but it is used for water systems because of it doesn't rust and is very easy to bend. It is soft and therefore creates good seals at joints and it also heats up quickly and bonds well with silver solder.
It is not used for tanks in the home because of its softness and its cost. Copper is far more expensive than stainless steel, and to make a tank that wont eventually collapse under its own weight you have to use a lot more metal, making the tank excessively heavy and expensive.

2007-12-10 22:38:57 by Sparrow

Just a few of the Texas tanks that have been built over the past 30 years that have required little to no maintenance. Saving our customers ...

The short answer is MAYBE -

Types 304 and 316 are widely used in the wine industry, providing corrosion resistance to the various alkalis, acids, sterilants, and fermentation by-products. For wine, Type 304 is satisfactory for crushers, conveyors, presses, filters and other assorted components. Type 316 is specified for applications using special cleaning compounds and for the production of wine vinegars in which the non-moly grades (eg. 304) are subject to attack by acetic acid.

Depending on the exact nature of your process/chemicals/fermentation process - 304 may not be adequate, whereas 316 may be more appropriate. So be careful; you may want to spend some time performing some corrosion testing.

2008-08-05 20:21:26 by mayin

Talk to a professional, commercial, storage tank coating specialist. There are good products out there that are used to coat tanks in refineries and chemical plants. Is this for Potable Water? You may have to have the interior sand blasted.

2006-01-29 10:02:06 by garysinvestments

Dear Sir/Madam:
I need from manufacturers,sellers or dealers information about Stainless Steel Tanks, Sanitary/Food Grade with capacity to storage 100,000 lts and 200,000 lts (news or used previously with water or mineral water storage only) tanks should be totally clean in good conditions, without internal or external damages.
Tanks could be from any procedence (country) but it should be in excellent conditions.
I need information in detail of dimensions, layout if it's possible and specifications, (inlet-outlet valves, top manhole, temp gauge 0 -100 Celcius degrees, level indicator, front manhole oval totally, internal totally polished sanitary grade in SS 3042B, hooks for transport (optional), etc.

I need information and quotation FOB Prices, please inform the place and the time available, if this tanks are available or if this tanks could be produced, please indicate the time of manufacture and conditions.

I hope to receive the information in detail soon.
Thank you.

are you talking about water tanks ? or rainwater tanks ? cause you can buy water tanks at stainlessrainwatertanks.com

2008-03-10 00:10:34 by Cristh-Proyecto2008

I have noticed in some of the remote areas of Southern California (Malibu mountains) there are homes with large steel storage tanks outside the house, they look like water tanks and the houses are in arid areas with no groundwater, and no fire hydrants around, I assume there are no water services to the homes. Do these places have to pay for water delivery from a truck? how much would it cost?

The majority of water is collected from rain water, and the rest is topped up from a water truck. In Australia, it costs about $100 to get two tanks filled up.

Hope this helps.

2009-08-12 01:26:25 by Patrick N