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The study is aimed at finding connections between the Polish artist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885 – 1939), known under the pseudonym Witkacy, and the American artist with Ruthenian roots Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987). It is based on a comparison of Witkacy’s Portrait Company and Warhol’s Factory – two forms of image production that copied commercial business strategies. Through his company, Witkacy painted approximately five to seven thousand portraits, mostly in a standardized format of 65 x 48 cm, each signed with a specific signature. The signature contained abbreviations of letters defining the type of portrait according to the Working Rules drawn up by him, but also, for example, information about the current state of the artist: NP n – did not smoke for n days, NΠ n – did not drink for n days, cof – drank coffee, Co – used cocaine, Et – ether, Mesk – mescaline. Warhol’s Factory offered portraits made with a quick and simple technique combining photography and screen printing with painting and drawing in a standardized format of approximately 100 x 100 cm at a price of 25,000 dollars for the first one, and 5,000 dollars for each subsequent copy. In both cases, the artists challenged the classical understanding of art, the uniqueness of the artwork and the role of the artist. With a certain risk, the author of the study concluded that Warhol and his Factory are, to a large extent, the fulfillment of the anti-utopian vision of the future formulated by Witkacy, where the artist is demythologized, becoming a commercial producer of serial works, in which there is no space for the metaphysical experience of art. Warhol fulfilled this vision extremely effectively and, with an incomparably better financial result than Witkacy’s Company. In addition to the issue of commercialization wrapped in artistic provocation and irony, in the case of both artists it is also about playing with the market, clients and art critics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A utility model refers to the purification of a gas mixture by neutralization using chemical reactions, and CO, H2S, SO2, CO2, etc., emitted into the atmosphere in various industrial facilities. Can be used to neutralize toxic gases such as. The filter for cleaning waste gases in industrial enterprises has a vertical cylindrical body, inlet and outlet pipe branches, a filter element inside the body, it differs in that it consists of an inlet pipe located along the cylinder axis connected to the receiver, and an outlet pipe for oxygen separation in the atmosphere. The filter element consists of two insulated parts and is made in the form of a filter chamber. At the top of the chamber there is an outlet for the inlet tube, and at the bottom, filter blocks filled with Na2O2 are installed on both sides of the inlet tube. Filter blocks have inlet and outlet covers, and meshes are installed at the outlet. The body has a pipe branch for nitrogen flow, and inlet and outlet pipe branches for creating a vacuum. In order to create a vacuum in the filter chamber, shut-off valves are installed in the lines for supplying nitrogen. This is a condition for keeping unused Na2O2 in an inert environment when the unit is not in working condition or in intermittently working units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A workshop, as a crowded place, is quite easy to cause serious casualties and economic losses once there is a fire. In this paper, Pathfinder software was used to simulate fire emergency evacuation in a workshop of a large factory with building structural symmetry. According to the simulation results, several obstacles to the evacuation were discovered and further analyzed. The results showed that the main factors affecting the evacuation were the width of exits, the distribution of occupants and the effective evacuation width of stairs. Among them, only changing the width of exits had little influence on shortening evacuation time. While changing the effective evacuation width of stairs could greatly relieve the evacuation pressure, every increase of 0.5 m in the width of the staircase could shorten the evacuation time by 30.0 s. Meanwhile, the larger the number of people in high-rise buildings, the longer the evacuation time was. Therefore, the means of restricting people from entering the high-rise buildings in batches could be used to prevent personnel from being evacuated in time when a fire incident occurs.

This article delves into the organization, execution, and significance of industrial practice at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute during the late 1920's and early 1930's, utilizing archival materials and scholarly literature. The article highlights the transition from summer industrial practice, which had inherent organizational issues, to continuous industrial practice, involving a regular alternation of theoretical and industrial training throughout students' tenure at the institute. This approach allocated a significant portion (up to 40--50%) of study time to industrial training directly related to student' specialties, with faculty commissions overseeing its organization. The article acknowledges that some students initially resisted this practice, often citing various reasons for their unwillingness, leading to the institute's efforts to address these challenges. Despite persistent issues, branch institutes stemming from KPI, such as Kyiv Machine-Building, Kyiv Energy, and Kyiv Institute of Chemical Technology, actively participated in the production process. They contributed to the development of industrial training methodologies, program creation, planning, and the selection of experienced instructors. Moreover, the early 1930s saw notable advancements in production training at institutes like Kharkov mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, Dnepropetrovsk mining, and Nikolaev shipbuilding. The article provides insights into the educational landscape, everyday life, and industrial practice at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute during this era, shedding light on vocational training, factories, and student experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In order to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions, systematic energy demand analysis and the derivation of improvement strategies are key. Against this background, a methodology for data driven energy demand prediction and performance benchmarking for factories is presented. The machine learning based approach enables to quantify performance influencing factors, identify "best in class" factories and fields of action for improvement. The results are validated within an automotive OEM internal and even external competitor assessment. The transferable approach based on well accessible public data also enables larger industry wide studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article tells about the history of embroidery art «white on white» in the Poltava region, the work of specialized artisans, cooperatives and factories. Unrepeatable technical features of embroidery, artistic and expressive means of ornamental compositions are revealed. About how embroidery with «ball» was reflected in Ukrainian folk songs. The creativity of the embroiderers who worked in the Reshetyliv region gained general recognition, and the modern carriers of the «white on white» embroidery technology are also discussed. In her work, the craftswomen use traditional techniques and modern motifs, refer to folk sources, emphasizing that even now «white on white» embroidery has not lost its relevance. Emphasis is placed on the issue of the continuation of the tradition by young craftsmen and ways to solve it, which involves the implementation of measures to protect embroidery. Implementation of additional measures for the protection and popularization of Reshetiliv embroidery - its transmission to future generations is emphasized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents the publication of the factory newsletter Čevljar in the company Peko Tržič. The purpose of the factory newsletters was to inform the workers about the company’s operations and other current topics. The article focuses on the content of Čevljar, namely on contributions related to imparting new knowledge and contributions that encouraged employees to pursue formal education. Factory newsletters, which began to be published in this country in the 1960s, over the years upgraded the types of articles and the format but kept their basic structure. The editorial staff of Čevljar followed the content guidelines of publishing factory newsletters, while among the contributions there was a great emphasis on encouraging employees to receive additional formal education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to describe the city of Chișinău as a true center of artistic metal processing. Here there were jewelry making workshops, the Jewelry Factory, the Jewelry Workshops of Plastic Fund, most of the notorious jewelers worked here. Chișinău, rightly, was and remains the core of the development of metal art in the current space of the Republic of Moldova. From a chronological point of view, four stages of development of the city from the perspective of the metal art were outlined: 1812–1917; 1918–1940; 1945–1991 and the period after the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Moldova. Both fine artists and those who practiced metal art viewed the Chișinău city not only as a socio-economic and cultural center, but also as a source of inspiration to pay a well-deserved tribute to the city (A. Marco, enameled plaque Măzărache Church in Chișinău; V. Vasilkov, set of articles for the Civil Status Office, Central Sector, Chișinău, Gh. Cojușnean, the pendant The City in the Evening and the small sculpture Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in Chișinău).

Este artículo expone y reflexiona de forma crítica sobre el proyecto de investigación artística Ocio en la fábrica, que gira alrededor de la relación entre ocio y trabajo a partir de tres espacios de ocio del polígono Pla d'en Boet de Mataró (un bar, un gimnasio y un local de camas elásticas) en los que tres actrices son contratadas para llevar a cabo las actividades habituales en ellos. Remunerar a las actrices para realizar actividades de ocio se convierte en un acto simbólico de imbricar ocio y trabajo dentro de espacios industriales reconvertidos en espacios de ocio. Este artículo complementa los resultados videográficos y documentales del proceso de trabajo con una explicación detallada de su proceso, de las tomas de decisión y de las reflexiones conceptuales que lo hicieron posible. This article exposes and critically reflects on the artistic research project Ocio en la Fábria (Leisure in the factory), which revolves around the relationship between leisure and work based on three leisure spaces in the Pla d’en Boet industrial estate in Mataró —a bar, a gym and a local trampolines— in which three actresses are hired to carry out the usual activities in them. Paying actresses to carry out these leisure activities becomes a symbolic act of interweaving leisure and work within industrial spaces previously converted into leisure spaces. This paper complements the videographic and documentary results of the work process with a detailed explanation of its process, the decision-making and the conceptual reflections that made it possible.

Applied ergonomics in the pharmaceutical industry, involves the design and adaptation of work spaces from the production area, equipment and tasks for operator safety, noise level and lighting, being the factors that create real discomfort. The noise is present in all machines in this industry, the noise level being the one that requires additional protection measures for some machines. In the following, the analysis of the data collected from the occupational medicine and the measurements carried out, it was found that the wearing hearing protection equipment and optimization of lighting are mandatory at the level of departments production, especially hearing protection is mandatory at the level of tablet presses, because the noise level is the highest with these machines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Directional measurements of over 2600 links in four distinct factories at 28 GHz are used to formulate the path gain and azimuth gain models to allow reliable 90% coverage estimates. A simple theoretical model of path gain, dependent on ceiling and clutter heights, is found to represent path gain across the four factories with 4.4 dB root-mean-square error (RMSE), contrasted with 6.9 dB slope-intercept fit and 8.5–14.9 dB RMSE for 3GPP factory models. The model also did well against 3.5 GHz path loss data collected over 18 MHz bandwidth in one of the factories, with an RMSE of 3.3 dB. In nonline-of-sight (NLOS) conditions, scattering reduces available antenna azimuth gain from nominal value by up to 7.3 dB in 90% of links. Line-of-sight (LOS) blockage by a 1.7 m × 1 m obstacle in factory aisle leads to 7 dB signal reduction, attributed to availability of other paths. It is found that an access point (AP) using 25 dBm transmit power per polarization, with 23 dBi nominal gain and omnidirectional terminals, supporting $2\times $ 2 MIMO in a 400 MHz bandwidth, can provide 130 Mb/s for 90% of factory locations within 50 m. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Laboratory still is a relatively new form of doing human sciences. One that is novel and somewhat foreign at its staring point. In the text the author discusses the intuitive associations -- that are not always explicitly stated -- hidden behind the idea of the laboratory, in particular this institution's affinity with theatre, factory and workshop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives. Occupational health and safety practice in the textile factory has been neglected and in Ethiopia there is little evidence on occupational safety practice and associated factors in a textile factory. This study aimed to assess the occupational safety practices and associated factors among employees in Jinmao and Philip Van Heusen Textile Ethiopia, Hawassa Industrial Park, south Ethiopia in 2019. Methods. An institutional cross-sectional study was conducted from January to February 2019. A total of 345 participants were included in the study using a stratified random sampling method. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews and an observational checklist, and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Bivariate and multivariate analysis assessed the association between dependent and independent variables. Results. Among the 345 (96%) respondents recruited, more than four-fifths (82%) were single. Almost two-thirds (63.8%) were in the age range 21–24 years. Attending safety training (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 1.73, 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.05–2.81]), orientation on occupational safety practice (AOR: 2.18, 95% CI [1.15–4.14]) and working in the weaving section (AOR: 3.58, 95% CI [2.09–6.12]) were independent predictors of safety practice. Conclusions. The level of occupational safety practice was very low compared to studies in developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated the concentration level of thoracic and inhalable sizes particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) present in the air released from a cement company located at Obajana, Kogi State, Nigeria. The collection of ambient air particulates within and outside the cement factory was carried out using the SKC deployable ambient air sampler. The duration considered during sampling was between 8 and 12 hr per day (1 month 2 weeks) and the equipment was operated at 7 and 10 L/min using filter sizes of 2.5 µm and 10 µm. Findings reveal a maximum mean value of PM10 recorded as 364.82±80.19 µg/Nm³ at the cement mill section, followed by 292.77 µg/Nm³ at the raw mill area with, the flow rate of 7 L/min for 12 hr and 10 L/min for 12 hr. The highest value of PM2.5 recorded was 744.44±2.5 µg/Nm³ at the cement mill and 809.9±68.95 µg/Nm³ at the raw mill section with a flow rate of 7 L/min for 12 hr respectively. It is suggestive that people living within the Obajana community are not safe based on the comparison with standards such as the World Health Organization, and the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to introduce the operation of the Arms and Machines Factory "Arma" in Lviv. It was one of the first armaments companies in the Second Republic. The company made great contributions to the work of rebuilding Poland after the end of World War I, and from then on, by fulfilling the orders of the Polish Army, had an impact on the security and defense of the country. The study is based on archival materials collected in Poland and Ukraine, published sources, the press and scientific studies.

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Background: Occupational noise exposure is one of the environmental factors that pose safety and health risks among workers in factories. This systematic review focuses on the activities that cause noise hazards toward workers’ heart rate, other physiological conditions, and strategies to prevent noise exposure in the manufacturing industry. Methods: Through a comprehensive literature review, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) and the Cochrane method were used. The appraisal of quality was conducted by using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) to fulfil the selected keywords. Results: Occupational noise exposure not only affects the workers’ most common issues, such as heart rate, but also other physiological factors, such as blood pressure. The outcome showed that different level of continuous noise exposure with high intensity decibels affects the heart rate of the workers. Source, path, receiver was recommended strategies for basic noise prevention in engineering control. Conclusion: Therefore, noise give significant effects towards human workers in related industry. Study related to noise effects towards heart rate performance led to future prevention and innovation.

This paper draws on data collected during ethnographic fieldwork in a factory in south-east China to describe the significance of a group of activities colloquially known as "pulling the sheep's wool" (haoyangmao). This wide-ranging set of thrift-oriented practices involves gaining rewards and discounts by collecting various credits and points, most often through activities conducted on online shopping, news and payment platforms. Recent studies have sought to reposition thrift as a morally-infused consumptive practice for the creation of value, through which the concept of the house is enacted. However, this paper demonstrates how thrift is viewed by labourers as a kind of "work". As such, it is able to act in a factory environment largely unmoored from notions of domesticity, instead delineating social boundaries between production line workers and managers, fostering communal behaviours amongst labourers and—through a process of earmarking—allowing for workers to direct a greater share of their wages toward household economies. We argue that this conception of thrift as labour actually reworks the way that consumption conjoins with production, challenging our received understandings of consumption, while also providing new possibilities for the creation of both value and personhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Decrease in the supply of portable drinking water across most settlements in Nigeria and the continuous increases in demand for drinking water gave birth to sachet water otherwise called 'Pure Water". The study into this industry is imperative, as it provides drinking water to many households in addition to employing many youths, thereby decreasing unemployment and enhancing economic growth. However, it has been observed that many of the factories within the industry collapse barely few years after commencing operation. This research therefore aims to examine the causes of the collapse sachet water factories (CSWFs) in Tarauni, Kumbotso, Dala, Nassarawa, Municipal, Gwale and Ungoggo of Kano Metropolis, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted. One hundred and sixty-nine (169) samples of CSWFs and their employers were identified, questionnaires were distributed to proprietors. Result of a descriptive statistics has shown that 8 of the 16 challenges have significant impact with ownership structure and government bureaucracy having the largest with 7.58 score. A correlation analysis has suggested that the factors have a mean score of 5.231 and standard deviation of 1.60075. The paper thus recommends provision of industry specific loans for sachet water operators by the Bank of Industry; owners should employ professionals to conduct intensive market survey and develop a realistic business plan, in order to minimize failures; Cooperative organization should be formed by the SWFs, to support their member, in case of difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper investigates the factory in the context of a multinational corporation. The historical-structural background for capturing the changes in the factory is both post-socialism and the conditions of neoliberalism. Drawing on conceptualizations from critical sociology, critical approaches to neoliberalism, and new working-class studies, the author focuses on how the structural transformation of socioeconomic conditions translates into the work in the factory and what implications this has for how workers and managers experience work and their own identities. Based on ethnographic research at the Baťa shoe factory, I identify a culture of precarious responsibility, which I characterize through four dimensions: management's disengagement from responsibility, workers' assumption of responsibility, the imposition of economization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Architecture seems to have lost sight of flexibility's multiple definitions and historical depth. The concept's easy presence in contemporary architectural discourse masks flexibility's intimate connection to the contraction and expansion of industrial production and changing manufacturing processes in the first half of the twentieth century. Flexibility at this historical moment required rendering the manufactory divisible, thereby allowing space, a financial asset, to be redistributed over time. This article follows one such firm, the Austin Company, through a series of commissions to illustrate how it positioned itself as a flexibility supplier. Doing so allows for inquiry into the nature of flexibility in the history of industrial capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an official source that has not been published before describing the problematic aspects of the daily functioning of industry and urban life in Omsk during the period of the new economic policy. The publication is addressed to researchers of the early Soviet society, everyday life, industrial history, sanitary and ecological state of the cities of Western Siberia in the early 1920s

This paper explores the representations of factories in video games, in relation to dystopian fictional worlds. The representation of the factory, its role in video game storytelling, its connection with game design elements, are connected to the ways in which this building is a concrete embodiment of a dystopic system of power. The research is introduced by a brief survey of factories in video games. Then, this paper presents three progressive models, linked to three concrete examples: Beyond Good & Evil (Ubisoft, 2003), Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs (The Chinese Room, 2013) and NieR: Automata (Platinum Games, 2017). Finally, the contribution ends with a fourth category, linked to explicitly political video games.

The Republican People's Party, which held the administration from the foundation of the Republic until 1950, carried out a statist economic policy until 1947. Due to the economic depressions and negative consequences caused by the Second World War, the liberal economy in the world was on the rise. Thus, the Republican People's party also turned to the liberal economy since 1947, but did not accept it as a state policy. In 1950, the Democratic Party won the election with a large majority of the votes under the slogan "enough words belong to the nation". With the Democratic Party taking over the country, liberalism in Turkey has become a state policy and thus private capital has been supported in all areas. This policy of the Democratic Party has shown itself in all aspects, and private equity has taken a leading position in this regard. But situations such as the negativity caused by the Korean War, foreign exchange problems in 1954, and the inability to receive expected assistance from the United States led to a change in Turkey's understanding of an agricultural-oriented liberal economy. From this period, an industry-oriented approach was adopted, and instead of imported goods that could not be realized due to foreign exchange shortages, raw materials available at home were easily processed and the demands of the domestic market were tried to be met. During this period, the Democratic Party administration supported many industrial branches. Some of these supported branches are Sugar Mills, weaving mills, cement factories and iron and steel factories. The majority of the public's share in these branches covers and they have been funded by various loans by many public banks, especially Sümerbank. In the study, document and document analysis method from qualitative research methods were used by considering the Democratic Party's understanding and practices of industrialization, namely "sugar factories, weaving industries, cement factories, iron and steel factories". Thus, archival documents and first-hand sources describing the period were examined and an objective study was tried to be put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alfonso Brunet was a civil engineer born in San Sebastian into a family of industrialists, merchants and bankers, who built and started up the first hydraulically powered esparto-making factory in Cieza in 1867. We study his life history, that of his family and the history of this factory, which is still preserved in Cieza and which we claim as industrial heritage of our city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we examine innovative design practices on the Saint-Nazaire Airbus factory shop floor. The engineering and manufacturing engineering departments are in charge of the design of products and their industrialization, even though the factory is usually seen as a place for manufacturing, rather than design. However, there is also design activity in a factory that is devoted to the optimization of manufacturing processes. In this study, we highlight an alternative form of design that relies on a collective exploratory approach. A total of 30 projects from the Saint-Nazaire Airbus factory were selected and analyzed. Of these, two were selected as case studies to illustrate the factory's different design methods. Subsequently, quantitative analysis provided evidence of the existence of two design regimes: closed prescription and expandable prescription. The resulting solutions were examined, and it was found that designs under the expandable prescription regime provided more robust long-term solutions. This study offers new perspectives for reexamining innovation in manufacturing and exploring design activity on factory shop floors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Saowanee Thongnopakun,1 Sawitree Visanuyothin,2 Mereerat Manwong,3 Yuvadee Rodjarkpai,1 Pichitra Patipat1 1Faculty of Public Health, Burapha University, Chon Buri, Thailand; 2Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand; 3College of Medicine and Public Health, Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, ThailandCorrespondence: Saowanee Thongnopakun Tel +66 38102-730Email saowaneehe@hotmail.comPurpose: This study aimed to identify the factors associated with depression among workers in industrial factories in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) of Thailand. Additionally, a guidebook was created to evaluate the suitability and appropriateness of the health literacy of the workers to prevent depression.Methods: This study applied a mixed method from May 2019 to May 2020. Two-stage sampling was used to recruit samples. A total of 416 workers were surveyed using a self-administered questionnaire. Moreover, 20 stakeholders enrolled in two focus group discussions (FGDs) using a semi-structured interview questionnaire to explore situations and develop a guidebook. Descriptive statistical, multivariable logistic regression, and content analysis were applied to analyze the data. Both quantitative and qualitative data were used in the development of the guidebook, which were further tested and evaluated by interviewing the 20 stakeholders.Results: Depression was found in 17.1% of the workers. Job position (adjusted odds ratio [ORadj] = 7.14), hours of online media use (ORadj = 1.87), moody/anxious (ORadj = 5.35), avoiding people (ORadj = 9.12), and self-behavior modification to prevent depression (ORadj = 2.41) were associated with significant depression. The FGDs revealed that stakeholders had blurred perceptions of stress and depression. The sample of industrial factory workers was subjected to workload time constraints but had low level of screening for depression. Online media was used only for working in industries. The guidebook was very interesting and useful for stakeholders and contained definitions and symptoms of depression, self-screening and self-care strategies, consultation and hotline contacts, and health literacy improvement guidelines for factory and health personnel to prevent depression.Conclusion: This study confirmed that online media and health literacy were imperative factors to address depression among workers in industrial factories. The guidebook was developed based on health literacy and help prevent depression among workers in industrial settings.Keywords: health literacy, labor, intervention, factory, industry

This study aims to analyze the pollution level caused by the activity of the Asphalt Mixing Plant (AMP) factory in Grogol District, Kediri Regency. This research is the mixed of the survey and qualitative case study, the research location is in Bakalan village, Grogol District, Kediri Regency. Interview, scale, observation, and documentation were done for data collection. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and qualitative data analysis were employed for data analysis. The results showed a significant effect of the activity of AMP Factory on air quality. The main source of air pollutant concentration on AMP machines is in the dryer and bitumen heating tanks. The concentration of pollutants emitted from AMP machine consists of gas flow of 0.51 m3/sec, total dust concentration of 9640 mg/Nm3, suspected particle of 220 mg/Nm3, concentrations of SO2 of 540 mg/Nm3, gas emission level of 15.3 m3/tonne, dust emission level of 0.145 kg/tonne, estimated particle emission level of 0.0033 kg/tonne, and SO2 emission level of 0.0083 kg/tonne. Thus, testing the air pollutant concentration in areas within a