EEMUA第159号出版物被认为是地上立式圆柱形钢储罐最全面的用户指南。其目的是协助制定基本的检查和维护要求，以尽量减少在用问题，延长这些储罐的使用寿命。EEMUA 159提供了关于按照BS、EN或API标准建造的储罐的指南，用于储存石油和化学原料和产品以及冷冻气体。这些标准包括BS 2654、API 620和API 650、DIN 4119-1和-2、CODRES、G0801和EN 14015。新版介绍了被认为是世界上唯一的基于风险的检查（RBI）和以可靠性为中心的维修（RCM）的组合理论——“概率预防性维修方法”。RBI和RCM的不同且不协调的方法，自从它们在工业的各个方面（不仅仅是储罐）开始使用以来，从未以EEMUA 159中提出和实施的方式进行组合。 过程是基于时间和条件的。该出版物列出了规划和执行检查、维护和维修工作的主要特点。它包括需要检查和维护的关键油箱部件、降解机制和常见检查技术的描述，以及油箱提升的详细信息。对许多关键设计特征、操作过程中遇到的常见问题和维修方法提供了全面指导。有许多新的部分，如积雪、平面倾斜和过度电镀。附录提供了如何对储罐组件进行评估计算的指南，并通过示例计算进行了说明，以及维修方法。

EEMUA Publication 159 is considered to be the most comprehensive users' guide available on above ground vertical cylindrical, steel storage tanks. It is also used worldwide by regulators as an example of what good practice looks like.EEMUA 159 is intended to assist in the establishment of essential inspection and maintenance requirements in order to minimise in-service problems and extend the useful life of these storage tanks. It offers guidance on tanks built to BS, EN or API standards for the storage of petroleum and chemical feed-stocks and products, and non-refrigerated gases. These standards include BS 2654, API 620 and API 650, DIN 4119-1 and -2, CODRES, G0801 and EN 14015. In addition, since EEMUA 159 contains information on many topics that are not covered in API 653, the EEMUA publication can be considered complementary to the API standard.This new edition builds on previous work with additional material to reflect the advances in technology, understanding and operational information. Chapters that have been significantly updated include those on corrosion of tanks, general inspection techniques and interpretation of inspection data, fixed roofs, floating roofs, hydrotesting and probabilistic preventive maintenance (PPM). There are also completely new chapters on mothballing, turn-around procedures, aluminium domes and operation at elevated temperatures. Significantly, a new climate code has been added for Arctic conditions. There is also more focus on innovations and new inspection techniques.The PPM methodology provides what is believed to be the world's only combined theory of risk based inspection (RBI) and reliability centred maintenance (RCM). The different and non-harmonised methodologies of RBI and RCM, since their initiations throughout various aspects of industry (not only storage tanks), have never been combined in the way proposed and implemented in EEMUA 159. The process is time-based, condition-based and reactive.The publication sets out key features for planning and executing inspection, maintenance and repair works. It includes descriptions of the key tank components that require inspection and maintenance, degradation mechanisms and common inspection techniques, and details on tank lifting.Comprehensive guidance is given on many key design features, on common problems experienced during operation and on repair methods. There are numerous new sections, such as on snow loading, planar tilt and overplating. Appendices offer guidance on how to perform assessment calculations on tank components, illustrated by means of sample calculations, as well as on repair methods.