Monica Brands
Monica Brands is the sustainability coordinator for Noventa Energy Partners, a renewable energy company based in Toronto, Ontario. Brands is also a Masters student whose work focuses on novel heat pumps, building energy efficiency, and wastewater energy transfer.
She has studied aerospace engineering at Queen Mary, University of London, and mechanical engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University in Ontario, Canada. She has co-authored three papers on heat pump technology and one on the impact of ventilation on airborne virus transmission.
Articles by Monica Brands
Feasibility study of wastewater energy transfer for an existing campus building cluster
The HVAC-related energy usage of a group of three existing buildings on a Canadian university campus (the “Cluster”) was simulated. Two scenarios were compared: (1) an ambient loop paired with conventional HVAC equipment (boiler plant and cooling tower), and (2) an ambient loop using wastewater energy transfer (“WET”). The study aimed to assess the feasibility of implementing WET as a heating and cooling method for cold-climate institutional buildings, as well as to measure the effects of WET implementation on energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy costs
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