Process for the production of high purity para-xylene and high purity toluene

A process for producing high purity toluene and para-xylene in a para-xylene complex, the process comprising:

• separating a bottoms stream comprising C8+ aromatics from a benzene/toluene fractionation column in a xylenes fractionation column into an overhead stream comprising mixed xylenes and a bottoms stream comprising C9+ aromatics;
• introducing the overhead stream from the xylenes fractionation column into an adsorbent chamber comprising a para-xylene selective adsorbent;
• separating a stream comprising ortho-xylene, meta-xylene, and low-purity toluene from the adsorbent chamber and a portion of a low-purity toluene stream from the benzene/toluene fractionation column in a raffinate column into a raffinate overhead stream comprising toluene and a raffinate bottom stream comprising ortho-xylene and meta-xylene;
• introducing the raffinate overhead stream into the adsorbent chamber;
• removing an extract stream comprising para-xylene and toluene from the adsorbent chamber;
• separating the extract stream into an overhead stream comprising C6− compounds and a bottoms stream comprising para-xylene and toluene in a first para-xylene fractionation column;
• separating the bottoms stream from the first para-xylene fractionation column in a second para-xylene fractionation column into a sidedraw stream comprising high purity para-xylene, an overhead stream comprising toluene, and a bottoms stream comprising C9+ aromatics;
• recovering the sidedraw stream as a high purity para-xylene stream;
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• recovering at least a portion of the overhead stream from the second para-xylene fractionation column as a high purity toluene product stream.