Francois Chevarin My first hit in Google with particle size Hall-Heroult process as a search function produces the attached. There's a section on particle size.
'The size of the particulate carbonaceous material is usually below 40 mm. preferably between 1 micrometer and 30 mm. and the particulate carbonaceous material preferably contains between 5 weight % and 40 weight % of particles
having a size below 0.2 mm'.
One has to gauge whether the patent is actually referring to mm (millimeters) or microns (μm).... Especially when we appear to see conflict with the EP: '50g of petroleum coke (particle size in the ranges 10-100 micrometer) was...'