Dielectric heating with radio-frequency energy can be applied for a wide spectrum of dry or moist zeolites. It is possible to homogeneously heat packed beds in technical scale. The energy absorption strongly varies with the zeolite type enabling selective heating of layered arrangements containing different zeolites. The specific effect of water interacting with the structural cations allows establishing pronounced temperature gradients within a packed bed with varying water content. For distinct materials such as zeolite NaY, a coupled water-temperature pulse moving through the packed bed can be established. Potential applications for such a so-called thermo-chromatographic pulse range from adsorptive catalytic off-gas cleaning to thermal regeneration of zeolites in the context of gas drying.