High-silica CHA (SSZ-13) zeolites membranes, with pore size between the molecular size of CO 2 and N 2 or CH 4 , are promising for some industrial CO 2 separation process. Considering water is typically present in these industrial gas feed and the negative impact of moisture on the membranes’ gas permeation, it is highly desirable to increase the surface hydrophobicity of membranes to reduce the adsorption of water. In this paper, a W-doping strategy was proposed to increase the hydrophobicity of SSZ-13 membranes by eliminating the silanols on the surface, and the W-doped high-silica CHA (W-SSZ-13) zeolite membranes were prepared for the first time. Characterizations such as SEM, XRD, and XPS confirmed the successful incorporation of W into CHA membrane. The incorporation of W reduced the pore mouth size, and the W-SSZ-13 zeolite membranes showed improved CO 2 /N 2 and CO 2 /CH 4 separation performance. After W-doping, the maximum separation factors ( α max ) for the CO 2 /N 2 mixture with equimolar composition under dry conditions increased from 8.8 to 16.9, and for the equimolar CO 2 /CH 4 mixture, the value increased from 105.9 to 176. The W-SSZ-13 membranes also showed better separation performance under wet conditions. For both systems, the W-SSZ-13 membrane showed higher α max and less CO 2 permeance reductions, indicating a more resistance in wet conditions.
High silica CHA zeolite plays an important role in selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3 (NH3-SCR), but its synthesis is not highly efficient due to the use of a relatively high-cost structural directing agent (SDA) N,N,N-trimethyl-adamantammonium hydroxide (TMAdaOH) and relatively long crystallization time under hydrothermal conditions. Herein, we report an efficient and rapid synthesis of a high silica CHA zeolite possessing good crystallinity and uniform crystals (CHA-ST). The method includes interzeolite transformation of high silica FAU zeolite in the absence of water but the presence of zeolite seeds and a bromide form of the SDA. The absence of water in the synthesis significantly improves the zeolite yield by avoiding dissolution of aluminosilicate species in aqueous media, while the addition of zeolite seeds remarkably enhances the crystallization rate under solvent-free conditions. In addition, this route allows the use of a low-cost bromide form of the SDA. Catalytic tests in the NH3-SCR show that copper-exchanged CHA-ST (Cu-CHA-ST) exhibits comparable catalytic properties to those of Cu-SSZ-13 obtained from the conventional hydrothermal route.