Description
Modest capacity, but enough to take one appliance off the swap-and-return cycle for a useful stretch of the year.
Commonly used on food trucks, campers, market stalls and anywhere the appliance moves with the cylinder.
Filled to the 80% limit this vessel holds about 16 gallons of propane — roughly 1 million BTU, or about 68 lb of product. On a 30,000 BTU/hr appliance that is around 49 hours of burn time from a full fill.
The smallest capacity we list in this class. Anything more demanding moves you to the 24 gallon.
Key specification
- Shell capacity: 20 gallons
- Usable propane at 80% fill: approximately 16 gallons
- Product weight when full: approximately 68 lb
- Energy content when full: approximately 1 million BTU
- Installation: Underground (buried)
- Condition: Confirmed on your invoice
- Fuel: Propane / LPG
Getting it on site
The reason to bury a tank is almost always the site rather than the tank: setback distances, sightlines, or a plot that cannot give up the space. Done properly, a buried vessel outlasts a surface one because it never sees UV or frost.
This is supplied as equipment, not as an installed service. NFPA 58 and your local authority govern how and where it may be set.
Condition and certification
Each unit is checked, tested and photographed before dispatch, so what arrives is provably the vessel that was inspected.
Every fitting is checked against the vessel’s specification, and the relief valve date is confirmed before dispatch.
Worth knowing before you buy
Tell us the delivery ZIP when you enquire and we will quote the tank and the freight in the same reply, including any access surcharge — not after you have paid.
Buy the documentation, not just the steel. A vessel without a legible stamp and a test record is worth a fraction of one with both, whatever the listing says.
