Survey on Application of Optimization

Many optimization approaches have been developed to make significant improve­ments in different fields of the natural gas networks with a number of general assumptions, but still a tremendous potential exists in this field. By increasing the complexity of natural gas problems, more algorithms are being defined from the optimization perspective. Therefore, analyzing the previous researches can be help­ful to scholars for future research. Rios-Mercado [3] focused on reviewing fuel cost minimization, which is only one field of optimization in the natural gas industry. Considering the application of optimization methods in different fields of this criti­cal industry and its importance in all fields, this section focuses on comprehen­sively surveying the most important optimization problems in the natural gas network and organizing the latest papers on this topic.