Systems and processes for monitoring liquid condensate and natural gas liquids

A monitoring system for detecting water content, comprising:

• a charged couple device (CCD) configured to capture one or more images of a flow stream, the flow stream comprising a water component and at least one of a liquid condensate component and a natural gas liquid component;
• and
• a control device having a memory coupled to one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to cause the control device to:
• sense one or more bubble images captured within the one or more images of the flow stream, the one or more bubble images representing one or more water bubbles within the flow stream, wherein the sensing is refined based on a measured free water content value and the measured free water content value is based on a total water content value and a dissolved water content value;
• construct one or more reference geometries based on the one or more bubble images, each of the one or more reference geometries having a parameter associated with each of the one or bubble images;
• and
• based on the parameter for each of the one or bubble images, produce a predicted water content value for the flow stream.

A non-transitory computer readable medium for detecting water content, the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a memory coupled to one or more processors, the one or more processors configured to:

• capture one or more images of a flow stream, the flow stream comprising a water component and at least one of a liquid condensate component and a natural gas liquid component;
• sense one or more bubble images captured within the one or more images of the flow stream, the one or more bubble images representing one or more water bubbles within the flow stream, wherein the sensing is refined based on a measured free water content value and the measured free water content value is based on a total water content value and a dissolved water content value;
• construct one or more reference geometries based on the one or more bubble images, each of the one or more reference geometries having a parameter associated with each of the one or bubble images;
• and
• based on the parameter for each of the one or bubble images, produce a predicted water content value for the flow stream.