Key People Involved in the Invention, Testing and Distribution of
Omstar D-1280X fuel conditioner

Dr. Morton Z. Fainman, the inventor of Omstar D-1280X, received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1941. He was holder of 21 U.S. and 10 foreign patents related to fuels and lubricants.

On May 1, 1990, 33 years after his first published paper on use of synthetic esters to increase lubricity, the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office granted Dr. Fainman Patent No. 4,920,691 for Omstar D-1280X. On May 23, 1990, Dr. Fainman granted to Omstar-D-1280X Inc. the exclusive blending and marketing license for his patented D-1280X formula previously sold commercially that is now available to the public.

Dr. Fainman was a firm believer that all fuels could be improved to decrease deposits and improve metal-rubbing surfaces inside engines, while at the same time increasing fuel lubricity, with resultant improvement in engine life, lower emissions and better fuel economy.

In 1941, Dr Fainman served on a National Defense Research Committee and by 1944 he was promoted to commanding officer of a U. S. Army Petroleum Laboratory in France testing the quality of fuels and lubricants used by the Army ground and air forces advancing through France and into Germany. Fuel quality easily can be a determining factor in combat success.

After the war, Dr. Fainman was a Senior Project Chemist for Standard Oil of Indiana, and later, Executive Engineer of Inland Testing Laboratories.

His first technical paper on synthetic esters, (which are the active ingredients of the Omstar D-1280X Fuel Conditioner) was published in Lubrication Engineering in 1957.

For the next 11 years he was Director of Research for Bray Oil Company, specializing in the development of military specification products and research and testing of new additives for fuels and lubricants. For the remainder of his life, Dr. Fainman was President of MZF Associates and consultant to many well-known aerospace and petroleum companies.

Under the guidance of Colonel Howard Sargent, a Retired United States Army Corp Engineer, Executive Vice President and Chief Engineer for D1280X, Inc, and President, Richard Skaggs, joined with the City of Los Angeles Mayor Bradley, Councilman Richard Alatorre and a California State EPA accredited laboratory conducted a test using Omstar D-1280X in 30 City LAX diesel fueled Shuttle buses beginning June 23, 1988 through April 13-21, 1989, for 26,103 miles proving Dr. Fainman’s theory that D-1280X improves engine performance, increases fuel efficiency and reduces harmful emissions. The results of this test report is published in Dr. Fainman’s D-1280X patent No. 4,920,691.

Other EPA approved lab tests using D-1280X in gasoline in a 1991 Ford Thunderbird proved emission reductions up to 96% and fuel economy + 7%.

The City of Los Angeles continued to add D-1280X to diesel fuel in their entire LAX shuttle bus fleet and conducted an interim test after 4 years and 4 million miles of use proving an 89% reduction in harmful emissions. D-1280X was used for more than 8 years and 8 million cumulative miles in the LAX shuttle fleet until all of the diesel buses were replaced by electric, natural gas and LNG buses.

On May 23, 1990, Dr. Fainman granted to Omstar D-1280X, Inc. the exclusive blending and marketing license for his patented D-1280X formula.

Colonel Howard Sargent, Executive Vice President and Chief Engineer, D-1280X, Inc., is a retired Army Corps of Engineers officer. He was associate professor of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at West Point, with graduate degrees in engineering from Cal Tech, and business from George Washington University is also an honors graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the highest Federal management training institute. In the Pentagon, he was senior advisor on management at Army headquarters. Overseas duty included Germany, Korea, Japan, Turkey and Vietnam. He served as chief of the general management staff of a Presidential commission on management improvement. After being one of 32 District Engineers (for Montana, Idaho, and Washington) he became Executive Director (Chief of Staff) at the

Washington headquarters of the Army Corps of Engineers 33,000 person Civil Works Program. Later he was Vice President, corporate planning, for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in New York. His book on general management with the subtitle “A Participative Approach to Systematic Management” was published by John Wiley & Sons in 1978.

Colonel Sargent was a key member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J1667 committee from 1992 to 2002. Howard played an integral role in designing the procedures, protocols and standards in the development of the SAE J1667 Snap Acceleration test and smoke opacity meter equipment specifications currently used to regulate state heavy-duty vehicle inspection programs throughout the United States. Howard is also an Officer and the Chief Engineer for CalTest Instruments in Wilmington, CA a manufacturer of CalTest SAE J1667 specification Smoke Opacity Meters tested and proven to be the most accurate meter manufactured world-wide.