In this paper, the effects of synthesis conditions, including the seeding approach, gel composition,and hydrothermal treatment process, on the quality of porous
-alumina-supported Y-type FAUmembranes were studied. Defect-free, pure NaY-type zeolite membranes have been synthesizedand investigated for separation of equimolar CO
2/N
2 mixtures under dry and moist conditionsat atmospheric pressure. At room temperature, the CO
2 selectivity was about 31.2 for the CO
2/N
2 dry gas mixture with a CO
2 permeance of 2.1 × 10
-8 mol/m
2·Pa·s. The addition of watervapor to the feed stream decreased the permeance for both CO
2 and N
2 in a temperature rangeof 23-200
C. The existence of water vapor significantly enhanced the CO
2 selectivity at 110-200
C but drastically lowered the CO
2 selectivity below 80
C. At 200
C, with increasing waterpartial pressure, the CO
2 selectivity increased and then decreased after reaching a maximumof 4.6 at a water partial pressure of 12.3 kPa.