MFI-type zeolite was prepared on porous stainless steel mesh by in situ and secondary growth method, respectively. The zeolite mesh consisting of well-grown polyhedral crystals showed great hydrophilicity, which absorbed water passing through the mesh driven by gravity and rejected oil simultaneously. In order to obtain better oil/water separation performance, Al3+ ions were introduced into the zeolite structure to control the hydrophilicity of the zeolite-coated mesh. With increasing aluminum content in the coated zeolite, the contact angle measurement demonstrated that the hydrophilicity of the membrane increased with the oil contact angle changing from 136.8 to 163.5. When the Al/Si ratio was 0.04, the zeolite-coated mesh showed super-hydrophilicity and underwater super-oleophobicity. The oil rejection rate of the membrane reached > 99% with the water flux of > 80,000 Lm(-2) h(-1) at this ratio. The zeolite-coated mesh showed high chemical stability in an oil rejection rate, when the filtrations were repeated 15 times successively with the same membrane. The zeolite-coated meshes were successfully reproduced by a simple re-calcination step due to their thermal stability. When the re-calcination step had been carried out for three times on the same membrane, the oil rejection performance was slightly reduced only less than 1%. The MFI-type zeolite-coated mesh were also used to separate various oils such as n-hexane, cyclohexane, mineral oil and vegetable oil. The oil rejection rates were above 96% for all these oils.