The present invention is generally related towards enhancing the yield
and/or cold-flow properties of certain hydrocarbon products, increasing
the degree of isomerization in a diesel product and/or increasing the
production rate of a diesel product. The embodiments generally include
reducing the residence time of lighter hydrocarbon fractions during
hydrocracking, thereby decreasing secondary cracking, by various
configurations of introducing at least two hydrocarbon feedstreams of
different boiling ranges at different entry points in a hydrocracking
unit. A method further includes forming a hydrocarbons stream comprising
primarily C.sub.5+ Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon products; fractionating
hydrocarbons stream to form at least a wax fraction and an intermediate
fraction which serve as separate feedstreams to a hydrocracking unit
comprising at least two hydroconversion zones. One embodiment comprises
the use of a bifunctional catalyst in one of the hydrocracking zones so
as to favor hydroisomerization of hydrocarbons to favor the formation of
branched paraffins boiling in the diesel range.