“…Artificial neural network is used for predicting the values of dependent parameters for which no mathematical relation is available (Parthiban, 2007) or even though some mathematical relationship is available, it is hard to find the numerical parameters (Milewski, 2009). ANN models are widely used in various research fields including quality control (Bahlmann, 1999;Pang, 2004;Fruhwirth, 2007;Parthiban, 2007;Saengrung, 2007;Shang, 2008;Piuleac, 2010;Bhagavatula, 2012), prediction of compositions and properties of metallic and nonmetallic compounds (Wang, 2008;Asadi-Eydivand, 2014;Mohanty, 2014), aluminum reduction cell (Meghlaoui, 1998;Biedler, 2002;Boadu, 2010). However, there are only a few studies available (Berezin, 2002;Bhattacharyay, 2013;Bhattacharyay, 2015) in literature, which are directly related to carbon anodes used for the production of primary aluminum.…”