Alan Janechek, P.E.

President, Janechek & Associates

Education

B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Professional Affiliations

National Groundwater Association

Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)

EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program Industry Partner

Professional Experience

Alan has extensive experience in the areas of landfill gas control and recovery. Landfill gas experience includes all aspects of design, operation & maintenance, and construction management.  Alan has designed over seventy LFG collection systems including electricity generation, mechanical process design, electrical design, control logic design [including programming of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)] and wellfield design.

Alan's experience with LFG recovery design includes all aspects of engine generator facility design, including civil, electrical and mechanical system design.  He also has experience with design and construction of medium BTU facilities for the processing of LFG for combustion in boilers.  Alan is also the developer and owner of two landfill gas recovery facilities, including negotiation of the landfill gas purchase agreements and power purchase agreements.  Alan has also arranged for debt financing of these two facilities.

Alan's construction management experience includes management of numerous LFG construction projects, many of them design/build type projects.  He has also managed LFG system operation and maintenance projects and was one of the principal authors of the SWANA Landfill Gas O&M Manual of Practice.  Operations experience also includes numerous system startup and troubleshooting projects including extensive experience in all aspects of system control equipment.  Alan has presented numerous training sessions for the design concepts employed in designing LFG recovery systems.

Project Experience

Santa Maria Landfill: Landfill Gas to Electricity Design

Santa Maria, California

Savage Canyon Landfill: Landfill Gas to Electricity Design

Whittier, California

Xing Feng Landfill: Landfill Gas Collection, Flare Station and Engine Generator Design

Guangzhou, China

City of Redlands: Engine Generator Facility Design

Redlands, California

Evron Landfill: Landfill Gas Recovery System Design

Kibbutz Evron, Israel

China Grade Landfill: Landfill Gas Collection System Design

Bakersfield, California

Jolon Landfill: Landfill Gas Flare Station Design

Salinas, California

Lewis Road Landfill: Landfill Gas Flare Station Modifications

Salinas, California

Santa Maria Landfill: Phase II LFG Collection System Design/Build

Santa Maria, California

Allied Waste Industries: Otay Landfill/ Landfill Gas System Design

San Diego, California

Allied Waste Industries: Ramona Landfill/Landfill Gas Collection System Evaluation

Ramona, California

Santa Maria Landfill: City of Santa Maria/IT Corporation LFG Flare Station Design Build

Santa Maria, California

Kern County Waste Management Department: Bakersfield Municipal (BENA) Landfill

Bakersfield, California

Biomass: Landfill Gas Compressor Station Design

Wichita, Kansas

Biomass: Landfill Gas Compressor Station Design

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

University of California, Davis: UCD Landfill LFG Recovery for Boiler Operation

Davis, California

City of Mountain View Landfill: LFG Collection System

Mountain View, California

Publications and Presentations

Solid Waste Association of North America, Landfill Gas Operations and Maintenance Manual of Practice; October 1996, Principal Author

Landfill Gas and Groundwater Contamination; presented at the Proceedings of the October 1995 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Convention (co-author R. Prosser)

Landfill Gas Collection and Groudwater Protection; presented at the Eighteenth International Madison Waste Conference, September 1995, Department of Engineering Professional Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison (co-author R. Prosser)

Groudwater Impacts Associated with Landfill Gas Migration at Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Sites; presented at the Proceedings of the February 1998 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Convention (co-authors B. Clister and Sherrie Hibbs)

Personal

Married to: Susan Inong Janechek

Two children: Eddie (8), Katie (6)