Our Staff - Kinetic Group Worldwide

Mr Luke Berry

Luke Berry is the CEO of Kinetic. Kinetic offers mine water management products and services that provide an integrated set of solutions to remove suspended solids, dissolved heavy metals, and salts from tailings to make them fit for any purpose including re-use or discharge. Luke has worked as an infrastructure consultant since 2008, founding his own consulting business. He founded Kinetic in its current form in 2014. Previously, Luke worked for seven years in a variety of roles in the energy industry, including in gas and electricity generation, transmission, and distribution markets. Prior to joining industry, Luke worked for Commonwealth Treasury for 6 years, advising on reform of business regulations and measures to increase competition in fields such as mining, rail, electricity, gas, and resources exploration. Luke has qualifications in economics, law, finance, and public policy.

Dr. Di Liu

Dr. Di Liu is the Chief Scientist for Kinetic. She has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland in optimisation of mineral processing technologies.

She also holds a Masters degree in polymer materials and engineering. Her PhD work was sponsored by ACARP, BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance and Glencore and focused on the effect of polymers on the treatment of clay minerals in coal flotation using saline water.

Her PhD research identified a useful triblock copolymer with improved flotation performance in saline water and this led to a successful grant of another ACARP project for plant trialling of this polymer.

Di joined Kinetic in August 2016 to collaborate with research bodies and mining companies to evaluate and commercialize novel technologies to mining industry. She has worked on developing dewatering models and strategies and integrated in-line monitoring tools to better manage clay-rich tailings in saline water.

In addition, she has developed improved performance for the hydrate membrane filtration device to deliver very low turbidity water suitable for reuse in mining operations.

Di has been working in the mineral processing area specialising in the field of flotation and tailing management process for more than 6 years and gained extensive experience and knowledge in fundamental study, practical application and project management.

She has a strong background in clay treatment, polymeric flocculants, and saline water applications in mineral processing.

Dr. Emma Thompson Brewster

Emma holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland School of Chemical Engineering (Advanced Water Management Centre). Her PhD focused on electrochemical membrane technologies for nutrient recovery from wastewater, and her broader research interests encompass resource recovery from mining, agri-business and domestic waste products. Emma has worked at the Queensland Department of Energy and Water Supply as a graduate engineer, and at the Advanced Water Management Centre at UQ as a research engineer studying novel technologies for the treatment of acid mine drainage wastewater and domestic wastewater. Emma’s expertise lies in:

Mathematical modelling to aid the design and optimisation of emerging resource recovery technologies to remediate wastewater.
Developing innovative and novel processes to remediate acid mine drainage with a focus on recovering metals and other commercial by-products.
Nutrient recovery from agri-business and domestic wastewater, including nitrogen and potassium, using technologies implemented in centralised wastewater treatment plants or in decentralised (isolated) treatment systems.

Collaboration

Kinetic work closely with a range of researchers who advise on technical issues and share insights from their organisations, including from the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland.

We have worked onsite at mines to demonstrate our products and services.