Patent 7304193 was granted and assigned to Honeywell UOP on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An aromatics complex flow scheme has been developed. The isomerized xylenes effluent from a xylene recovery zone is recycled to a transalkylation stripper without requiring C8 aromatic hydrocarbons to be separated. This improvement results in an aromatics complex with savings on capital and utility costs and an improvement on the return on investment in such a complex.