Abstract: A dust amount estimating apparatus, which estimates the amount of dust generated in a process for generating BPA prills from liquid BPA introduced into a prill tower. The dust amount estimating apparatus includes a fine particle amount estimating unit to estimate the amount of fine particles generated in the prill generating process from flow rate information of the liquid BPA introduced into the prill tower using a learned fine particle amount estimating model; and a dust amount estimating unit configured to estimate the amount of dust generated in the prill generating process from the amount of fine particles estimated by the fine particle amount estimating unit using a learned dust amount estimating model.