This invention relates to the composition of an integrally-layered
polymeric membrane and a process for utilizing the integrally-layered
polymeric membrane components of a feedstream. More particularly, but not
by way of limitation, this invention relates to the composition of an
integrally-layered polymeric membrane and a process for utilizing the
integrally-layered polymeric membrane in the separation of aromatics from
a hydrocarbon based feedstream. The polymeric membranes of the present
invention are fabricated by chemically crosslinking adjacent polymer
membrane layers of the same or differing copolymer solutions to produce
an integrally-layered polymeric membrane with improved separations
properties.