Processes are disclosed for production of purified products from a fluid
mixtures of C.sub.8 aromatics by means of integration of perm-selective
separations with purified product recovery operations. The perm-selective
separations of the invention comprise of one or more devices using
polymeric perm-selective membrane devices to separate a meta-xylene
enriched stream from fluid mixtures of C.sub.8 aromatics thereby
producing a fluid comprising the remaining aromatic compounds which
advantageously includes para-xylene. Processes of the invention are
particularly useful for recovery of very pure meta-xylene and para-xylene
co-products from liquid mixtures even containing ethylbenzene as well as
the three xylene isomers.