abstract |
Para-xylene may be recovered as raffinate by contacting a C-8 aromatic hydrocarbon mixture, in the presence of toluene desorbent, with a synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicate zeolite HP, containing pyridine in amount of at least about 3.3 wt. % of said zeolite, having a lattice constant of 25.02-25.10 ANGSTROM . |