A convenience store is occupied for many hours of the day, almost everyday of the year, with occupancy levels varying throughout the day.
The HVAC system must be sized to positively pressurize the building to prevent infiltration. If the building is not positively pressurized, the doors, which are constantly opening and closing, will permit infiltration of outside air, adding latent and sensible loads to the space.
AAON has experience in controlling a tight temperature and humidity of the space with variable capacity compressors, variable speed compressors and modulating hot gas reheat.
Variable speed compressors or variable capacity compressors make it possible to precisely control the space temperature.